Quotes About Autonomy

There is an expiry date for blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

A compact organization lets all of us spend our time managing the business rather than managing each other.

We are not born free, nor do we come into this world with a self-identity and autonomy of our own. We achieve those things, through the conflict and cooperation that weave us into the social fabric. We become freely choosing individuals only by acquiring obligations to parents, siblings, institutions and groups: obligations that we did not choose.

Lo que resulta inaceptable en la filosofía política que hoy se oferta es su incapacidad por reconocer que la mayor parte de lo que somos y debemos nos ha sido dado sin nuestro consentimiento

Opportunities are enhanced not by closing things down, but by opening things up. It is by allowing autonomous institutions to grow, by protecting the space in which they flourish, and

Whose freedom, how exercised, how circumscribed and how defined?

Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many conservatives have failed to take seriously the many abuses to which property is subject. Libertarian

Liberté has been bureaucratised in the sense that it doesn't any more represent the freedom of people to break out, to do the thing that they really want to do. Rather it's conceived as a form of empowerment – the state gives you this in the form of vouchers or privileges, privileges, for example, that you might have as a gay, or a woman, or an ethnic minority.

I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted.

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it

Every nation has a right to carve out its own happiness in its own way."25

It was a lesson in self-reliance.

For many years, Rockefeller had tried to free himself from details and applauded the committee system as relegating him to a fifth wheel.

After Pierpont Morgan's death, the House of Morgan would become less autocratic, less identified with a single individual. Power would be diffused among several partners, although Jack Morgan would remain as figurehead.

Even as a teenager, Rockefeller demanded to be treated with adult dignity.

I do not know of any firm to suggest at the moment, but why not run them ourselves?

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

My sex is me as my mind is me, and nobody will make me feel shame about it.

I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.

Why aren't you working?" Finlay asked. I shrugged. Tried to explain. "Because I don't want to work," I said. "I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.

My only problem was making a living. How to make a living without giving up the freedom was not an easy trick.

That's the thing with life; whenever there's a real proper decision to be made, there's never anybody around but you.

Sex with a woman who wants to please a man is nothing compared to sex with a woman who wants to please herself.