Quotes About Autonomy

Hong Kong had been a British city, built on land seized from the Chinese Empire, until Britain ceded it back to China in 1997. But that handover had come with a fifty-year period of semiautonomy attached to it. So now the time to submit to full control from Beijing had come, the turnover had happened just a month before: July 1, 2047.

Our current economics has not yet answered any of these questions. But why should it? Do you ask your calculator what to do with your life? No. You have to figure that out for yourself.

The servile will is always locked in a double bind: to have a will means the agent will indeed will various actions, following autonomous decisions made by a conscious mind; and yet at the same time this will is specified to be servile, and at the command of some other will that commands it. To attempt to obey both sources of willfulness is the double bind. All double binds lead to frustration, resentment, anger, rage, bad faith, bad fate.

La independencia nutre a la fuerza.

I would be beholden to no man, not even for a blanket.

Lanthe, when we get older, you're going to be mine." She blinked up at him from a garland she'd been braiding. "How can I be yours when I'm my own?

You know that I'm not for sale, right?" "I know. Or I would have already bought you.

There comes a time, when you have to realize that you're not responsible for the whole world.

The rules are mine to set. What I don't believe in is playing by other people's rules.

No, no, Mr. Dade, this is my ride now. I make the rules.

One who is Master of himself is always a King, if only to himself.

each of us rules himself, or at least tries to do so. It is not an easy thing to do, as you probably know.

Let me remind you that the measure of any one's freedom is what he can do without.

he didn't care who ran the universe—he'd break whatever rules it suited him to disobey in any case, whoever was in charge—

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

No man can use his brain to think for another.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

It's easier to just be single and not have a relationship.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.

I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot.