Quotes About Autonomy

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

To accomplish this there is but one way. Science must make woman the owner, the mistress of herself. Science, the only possible savior of mankind, must put it in the power of woman to decide for herself whether she will or will not become a mother.

In the realm of thought majorities do not determine. Each brain is a kingdom, each mind is a sovereign.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

She lived alone and talked books not babies;

It was no good waiting for anyone else to save me. I had to save me.

When the world is civilized, no wife will become a mother against her will. Man will then know that to enslave another is to imprison himself.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

Despise The Free Lunch

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

There is a danger in letting a camera make all its preprogrammed decisions for you:

Sometimes, the best management is no management at all. Jeffrey Pfeffer likes to say that managers should be required to take something like the physician's oath: "First, do no harm.

As engineer Sanjeev Singh explained, if you keep waiting for people to tell you what to do, don't ask for help when you get stuck, and won't show others your work until it is perfect, "you won't last long at Facebook.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Of course, it is very difficult, and often impossible, for someone else to give you what you cannot find in yourself.

It turns out that human beings yearn not only for freedom, autonomy, individuality, and recognition. Especially in times of difficulty, they also yearn for security, order, and a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves, something that submerges autonomy and individuality—which autocracies often provide better than democracies.

Our egos are the the chair of the board. And the board members are the archetypes within us. Each needs to be heard from. Each needs to stand on its own and provide its input. But the whole person under the supervision of the Ego needs to make the final decision in our lives.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

As he later explained to Monuments Man Bernie Taper over drinks in a Berlin apartment, 'There's one good things about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

As he chooses, he is.