Quotes About Autonomy

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

In quest'epoca in cui tutto è ritenuto lecito purché sia fatto in piena libertà, e in cui il corpo è considerato un semplice strumento della volontà razionale e autonoma, la repulsione potrebbe essere l'unica voce rimasta in difesa del nucleo centrale della nostra umanità. Le anime che hanno dimenticato come si fa a rabbrividire sono superficiali.

Your own species ends up with a name like that when you get to choose it

survival in Nazi concentration camps "depended on one's ability to arrange to preserve some areas of independent action, to keep control of some important aspects of one's life despite an environment that seemed overwhelming.

one of the most beneficial things we can do for ourselves is to look for ways to exercise control over our lives—or at least to look for ways that help us feel that we do.

rule by the losers—by those who, for whatever reason, cannot or choose not to achieve values on their own, but depend instead on the work and effort of others.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso.

I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

It's done by everyone minding their own business

I don't want to be anybody's prisoner. I want to be a Queen.

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

Y no pienso hacer caso de las palabras de los mayores cuando digan: Anda, querida, sube..., te estamos esperando! Yo los miraré desafiante desde abajo y les diré: Antes decidme quién soy, y si me gusta esa persona, entonces subiré, pero si no me gusta me quedaré aquí y esperaré a convertirme en otra persona.

Si todo el mundo se ocupara de sus propios asuntos , el mundo giraría mucho más rápido

No doy nada a la gente en las manos, eso no serviría; debes tomarlo tú misma.

I am not about to say that what I put in my body has nothing whatsoever to do with my health, but I suddenly am surrounded by a world of health experts, and it gets tiresome. "You're eating a greasy cheeseburger, a man in your condition!" Deliver me. We'd all be a lot happier if we lived our own lives and allowed the son of a bitch down the street to live his. I just can't put it any more simply or directly than that.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.

Did you hear? You are free. Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no.

Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall live. It's one lump of sugar in your tea whether you like it or not and you'd best smile even if you're dying deep inside. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead. Please, please, please, Gemma, let's not die inside before we have to.

I don't understand why he had to fight. He was already in heaven. True. But he wasn't content to serve. He wanted more. He had all he could ask for, didn't he? Ann asks. Exactly. Miss Moore states. He had to ask. He was dependent upon someone else's whim. It's a terrible thing to have no power of one's own. To be denied.

It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body.