Quotes About Autonomy

Everything in the cosmos now proves to be relative. Nothing is autonomous in itself. All things in the world betray their interdependence with each other. Metaphysics ceases to be an abstract system of thought and becomes an experiential reality. Not beings in the world but the world itself comes to be questioned.

Polly Young-Eisendrath

... Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

At some point you have to start letting people save their own life.

Don't ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.

Dan alangkah indah kehidupan tanpa merangkak-rangkak di hadapan orang lain

Masa terbaik dalam hidup seseorang adalah masa ia dapat menggunakan kebebasan yang telah direbutnya sendiri

Semua yang terjadi d bawah kolong langit adalah urusan setiap orang yang berpikir

Masa lalu tak perlu jadi beban, bila tak sudi jadi pembantu.

Semua yang terjadi di bawah kolong langit adalah urusan setiap orang yang berpikir.

Pemerintah punya mau. Orang gunung punya mau sendiri. Kampon(g) tetap kampon(g). Desa ada boleh di darat - Mana Sambur, Ketika Mendengar Pembangunan Gereja Kristen & Pembangunan Desa.

You know who is your savior? You! You're most qualified to save yourself. You know all your weaknesses. You know all your strengths. You are eminently qualified to save yourself. So get on with the business of saving yourself by recognizing the potential that you have within you. Understand. This is not a little thing.

Prithee, John, why do you not speak for yourself?

We teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves.

You've got to do your own growing, not matter how tall your grandfather was.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

We take men for what they are worth-and that is why we hate the government of man by man

In olden times, when a king sent his vogt to a village, the peasants received him with flowers in one hand, and arms in the other, and asked him--which law he intended to apply: the one he found in the village, or the one he brought with him?

We renounce the idea of mutilating the individual in the name of any ideal whatsoever. All we reserve to ourselves is the frank expression of our sympathies and antipathies towards what seems to us good or bad.

No one is free who is not master of himself.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.