Quotes About Autonomy

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

They're threatened by you,' she said. 'You chose to do something they'd never have the gumption to choose for themselves. Being their own person.

dykes were put here to tip the scales! we have a very important job and i wouldn't trade it for the world. give me a choice between breeding, accelerated aging, living with an orangutan, and maid duty for life...or, autonomy, black boots, multiple orgasms, cats instead of kids, people who say what they mean, and nothing stopping me from doing whatever i wanna do...and guess which one i pick?

The poem is smarter than the poet and more rebellious. A strong poem will override its author's initial intentions.

Maybe I didn't march to the same drummer as most people, but I could do things on my own and do them well. That was what I'd learned, little by little, in the year I turned sixteen. I was complete by myself.

Never make choices simply because someone told you what is right. Know yourself, know your situation, know God for yourself, and decide what is right for your life.

When Jann Wenner, the hopelessly liberal founder of Rolling Stone magazine, was interviewing Bob Dylan in 2006, he was told that politicians cannot be counted on to solve problems. To him, the statement seemed absurd. "Who is going to solve them?" Wenner asked, incredulous. Dylan replied, "Our own selves2." He's exactly right. If we want things

There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team

le mot « sujet » a deux sens en français : c'est à la fois « une subjectivité libre : un centre d'initiatives, auteur et responsable de ses actes », et « un être assujetti, soumis à une autorité supérieure, donc dénué de toute liberté, sauf d'accepter librement sa soumission ». (p. 92)

We can of course shake off the burden which is laid upon us, but only find that we have a still heavier burden to carry – a yoke of our own choosing, the yoke of our self.

And truly, when I think about it, no one owes me a proper and truthful account of their life. And I don't owe anyone veracity when t comes to mine.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

One's life is peculiarly one's own when one has invented it.

Dobby has no master, Dobby is a free elf.

Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijateljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ?u ga satreti, moja je li?na stvar.

You do not need to be the designated driver of someone's intoxicated ego.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

You don't need it but

I have come to dislike anything that demands constant attention, whether it is dogs, dishwashers, or finally men. I like things that are independent, and that need you only because they want you, not because they'll have a breakdown without you.

Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.

Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.