Quotes About Autonomy

Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?

Once well underground, you know exactly where you are. Nothing can happen to you, and nothing can get at you. You're entirely your own master and you don't have to consult anybody or mind what they say. Things go on all the same overhead, and you let 'em, and don't bother about 'em. When you want to, up you go, and there the things are, waiting for you.

Freedom must mean that institutions have the autonomy to determine their own practices and admirations within the law. Otherwise, we confront the totalitarian demand that everyone should think the same thing and participate in the same admirations.

The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favour of a release into the irresponsibility of rights.

Kenneth Minogue

I told you I don't want to live like that anymore—for other people, what they think, what they believe. I don't think it's the way to live. It isn't for me anyway. All right. I wish I had your good sense. You're right, of course. Are you over it now? I'm getting there. Do you want another beer? No. But if you want more wine I'll sit here with you while you drink it. I'll just watch you.

The only path that leads to the ultimate you—because beyond goals, that's really what we're talking about—is the path you choose yourself. Nobody is in charge of you but you.

A lot of times when I think I'm being self-sufficient, I'm really just learning to live without the things that I need.

Rahim Khan laughed. "Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Kinderen zijn geen kleurboeken. Je kunt ze niet met je lievelingskleuren inkleuren.

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.

Les enfants ne sont pas des livres de coloriage. Tu ne peux pas les peindre avec tes couleurs préférées. The kite runner

She turned it so the sharp edge was vertical, and, as she did, it occurred to her that this was the first time that she was deciding the course of her own life.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours.

children s are not the coloring books where you can fill your favorite colors

Rahim Kan se echó a reír. —Los niños no son cuadernos para colorear. No los puedes pintar con tus colores favoritos.

Regulile erau simple: fara reguli.

Thalia, I want you to know that you don't have to wear that thing in this house anymore. Not on my account. Nor his. Do it only if it suits you. I have no more to say about this business.

Now that he was in school, he had his own life. He no longer liked to site and cuddle with her unless he was sick or wanted her to read him a story before bed.

Grown now, he stood in a train station or on the sidewalk beneath fluttering leaves or strode across a street. He paused in front of shop windows, or reached into his pocket for a ticket, or shaded his eyes against the sun. He'd grown from her body and now, astonishingly, he moved through the world without her. She

The command to be free is a double bind

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

no one else can live your life for you.