Quotes About Autonomy

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

Companies such as Google (and, historically, 3M) operationalize this theory by giving employees time at work to do whatever they want, without restriction or guidance.

Il corpo faccia quello che vuole, io sono la mente.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

Most people, Kant continues, are too lazy to think for themselves. They allow guardians of various kinds to think for them, and the guardians are only too happy to take control

No one is coming to save you. You're the only one left for this assignment.

I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

It boils down to this: you aren't allowed to tell them what their problem is, and in return, they aren't allowed to tell you what to build. They own the problem, you own the solution.

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

Many of these mothers raised their daughters to not need a man. At

Decisions are now made by one individual, rather than by a committee. He no longer has to mind read, predict, or try to please multiple voices with conflicting agendas. When putting himself first all the information he needs to make a decision is within him: "Is this what I want? Yes. Then that's what I'll do.

handing his paycheck over to Susan to control, he began giving himself an allowance to spend how he

The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Genuine freedom is not based upon the negative psychology of release. Its roots are in positive acts of dedication to ends and values. Freedom presupposes the autonomous existence of values which men wish to be free to follow and measure up to.

The self is completely autonomous, yet exists only in resonance with all other selves.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

Orders make you stupid, the captain told me, figure it out for yourself.

Social scientists have determined that we accept inner responsibility for a behavior when we think we have chosen to perform it in the absence of strong outside pressures. A