Quotes About Autonomy

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

Only sheep need a Shepard.

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

I've always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.