Quotes About Autonomy

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.

The project of recovering myself as subject—that is, of recovering my freedom from its entrapment by the Other—necessarily puts me in conflict with the Other.

decentralized control is not simply a philosophy; it is a set of technical skills that can be developed and practiced.

I'm not responsible for what other people think, only for what I am.

An individualist—a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has no intention of compromising with his own—may become: (a) a hermit of limited goals, (b) a tyrant surrounded by slaves with rebellion in his future and covert hostility in his present.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

You are personally responsible for everything in your life, once you become aware that you are personally responsible for everything in your life.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

Let every man be master of his time.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

I guess we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.