Quotes About Autonomy

It is a fundamental principle that every institution must be accountable to an authority which is independent of that institution. Yet somehow, the judiciary has propagated a view that the judiciary can only be accountable to itself.

I live my life not to please my pastor or my church or fellow Christians. I live my life according to my own convictions and morals and core values and principles, and a lot of times, that's not going to add up to other Christians.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.

It's always about agency - that's the goal, always, to give agency to people. I think that's always got to be the priority.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.

Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

Control is what gives you privacy.

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.

You want your privacy as a human being.

It's important to have privacy and have a personal life.

My mum will never ask if I'm seeing anyone; I'm not that kind of person anyway. I'm very private.

Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

My private life is my own business.

All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.