Quotes About Autonomy

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.

I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.

Me myself is enough to manage.

I would never forbid you. I can't forbid you. It's not in my power to, and it never should be.

I earn my own respect, " I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

At the beginning, always say yes. Later on, if you want to say no, no one will say no to you...

What does it matter to you that I'll stay here alone? What does it matter to you if I don't want others to want on my behalf, but want to want for myself-if I want the impossible .....

The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.

What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself — if I want the impossible...

We are passing through an unheroic phase of history when the man who has escaped passive conformism and follows the voice of his own conscience is a hero.

I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.

If a person is not living for others, it does not mean he knows how to live for himself. One prefers anyone - a mother, a lover, a friend - who knows how to live for herself. Such knowledge is not selfishness.