Quotes About Autonomy

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle.

I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire for freedom and solitude has lead to a not only to a consistent effort to avoid situations in which I would be under the control of other people, but also to an indifference to the satisfactions of power and position, things which impose a servitude...

Oh, these rags and tags of other people's making! Would he ever be able to call his brain his own? Was there, indeed, anything in it that was truly his own, or was it simply an education?

Is it true that human beings are nothing but the products of their social environment? And if it is not true, what justification can there be for maintaining that the individual is less important than the group of which he is a member?

I'll MAKE you be free whether you want to or not.' -The Savage

were Huguenots who abhorred the Church to which it belonged. That huge donjon, built by the Counts of Poitiers, was still a place of formidable strength; but Richelieu would soon be in power and the days of local autonomy and provincial fortresses were numbered. All unknowing the parson was riding into the last act of a sectarian war, into the prologue to a nationalist revolution. At

And anyhow the body seemed perfectly well able to look after itself. In reality, of course, it always does look after itself. All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

what would it be like if I could, if I were free

But I do, he insisted. It makes me feel as though … he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?

We can be educated for freedom—much better educated for it than we are at present.

Organization is indispensable; for liberty arises and has meaning only within a self-regulating community of freely co-operating individuals. But, though indispensable, organization can also be fatal. Too much organization transforms men and women into automata, suffocates the creative spirit and abolishes the very possibility of freedom. As usual, the only safe course is in the middle, between the extremes of laissez-faire at one end of the scale and of total control at the other.

Ama ba?ka bir ?ekilde mutlu olmak istemez miydin, Lenina? Ba?kalar? gibi de?il, kendi istedi?in gibi.

Is it any happiness, or any comfort, to consider that we are our own?

Todas las personas que no se conforman con la ortodoxia, que tienen ideas propias. En una palabra, personas que son alguien.

Dünyada düzeltebileceÄŸiniz, daha iyi yapmay? baÅŸarabileceÄŸiniz ilk ve son önemli kimse kendinizsiniz.

La organización excesiva transforma a los hombres y mujeres en autómatas, sofoca el espíritu creador y suprime la misma posibilidad de la libertad.

But I do," he insisted. "It makes me feel as though . . ." he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, "as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?" But