Quotes About Autonomy

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

My own mind is my own church.

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or race.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.