Quotes About Autonomy

I don't want to end my life, he said, but I'd rather end it while I am still myself, rather than become less and less of a person.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

didn't often wake up in a man's bed period.

that one thing I have control over? That shit is mine.

HE LITERALLY had to make every damned out himself.

Alongside the need to be coupled is an equally compelling need to be left utterly alone.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

El mundo hay que fabricárselo uno mismo, hay que crear peldaños que te suban, que te saquen del pozo. Hay que inventar la vida porque acaba siendo verdad

Each individual should be able to make good decisions without peer preassure.

We ike to think we are our own people, but sometimes it seems we are just playing out a script that was imprinted in us along ago.

Man proposes and dispose. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body of his desires, daily more formidable, in a state of anarchy.

Le plus beau présent de la vie est la liberté qu'elle vous laisse d'en sortir à votre heure.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Be what you are, do what you want. Treat others how you want to because equality in this time is just a humour.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

Change couldn't be stopped...but people always had choices, didn't they? Even if change was being forced on you...you still had a choice: You could either give up and accept someone else's ideas about change, or you could fight for the kind of changes you believed in.

As compelling as it may be to try and convince our friends to stop investing in that 'bubble' real estate market, or get your parents to move overseas with you, they have to make the decision on their own.

The point lay not in this or that label, but in the fact that this generation were going to think for themselves, take a wider view of the world than their parents had done, and not be frightened by bogey words.