Quotes About Autonomy

No one can be free unless he is independent.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

Freedom is control in your own life.

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

Just let me live my life.

Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.