Quotes About Autonomy

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

We don't want Arizona to be dependent on the whims of Barack Obama and the federal government.

We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch.

A huge portion of our lives involves the surrender of our freedom and personal autonomy. It is time in which we are directed by the needs and whims of others, and denied the right to make our own choices.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Of course we have the right to have expectations towards Europe - especially towards the Europe that left us to be the prey of the Russians in 1945 - but above all we have the right to rule ourselves here on our own and decide what form Poland should have.

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.

Freedom is priceless.

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't.

If people think that women only wear the burqa because of coercive pressure, let them create ample opportunities for them, at the same time enforce laws making primary and secondary education compulsory, and then see what women actually do.

I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I've been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.

Men should never be the prime focus of women's life.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

I think there should be a major cut in the power of government to interfere in the day-to-day running of our schools. I want this because our guiding principle is that schools run schools best.

As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.