Quotes About Autonomy

People like us can't adopt whole theories, as you did. If we can do the next thing, and have an hour a day to think in, we can accomplish marvels, but as far as any high-handed scheme of blind dominance is concerned—we'd just make asses of ourselves.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman.

Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

Emotionally, at least, people can't live by taking in each other's washing.

Either you think - or else others have to think for you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

My Aunt Bess is about sixty-five years old and has never been married. She told me that they may put Miss on her tombstone, but that she hasn't missed a thing.

They always wanted too much from her, something she could not give. She had told him over and over she would not marry him or ever live with him. But, typical of most men, they always believed she didn't really mean what she said and would change her mind. She never did. Why did they always have to push her into a corner and get so upset? She didn't want to live with anybody. She liked being alone. She hated anybody grabbing at her, trying to smother her.

You may not be the person your mother wants you to

Good government is about limited power but clear lines of authority. It is about giving officials autonomy, discretion, and the ability to exercise their own judgment. It requires recruiting bright, devoted people who are inspired by the chance to serve their country and earn respect for doing it. This is not something that can be created overnight, but it can be done. Taiwan and South Korea were not born with good government.

giving officials autonomy, discretion, and the ability to exercise their own judgment. It requires recruiting bright, devoted people who are inspired by the chance to serve their country and earn respect for doing it.

believe each person is responsible for their own happiness. To depend on other people to make you happy is a mistake.

Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

If I were someone else, I'd go along with you all. But since I'm what I am, lay off! Go to hell without me, Or let me go there by myself! Why do we have to go together?

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento. Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

Sit under the sun abdicate and be your own king

La soledad es la posibilidad del aislamiento. Si te es imposible vivir solo, naciste esclavo.

Reducir las necesidades al mínimo, para no depender en nada de los demás.

How wearisome to let one's existence become something absolutely dependent on someone else's feelings; to have no option but to feel, to love a little too, whether or not it is reciprocated.

Someone who has never known constraint can have no concept of freedom.

To give someone good advice is to show a complete lack of respect for that person's God-given ability to make mistakes

La libertad es la posibilidad de aislamiento. Eres libre si puedes alejarte de los hombre, sin que te obligue a buscarlos la necesidad de dinero, o la necesidad gregaria, o el amor, o la gloria, o la curiosidad, que no pueden encontrar alimento en el silencio y la soledad. Si te resulta imposible vivir solo, has nacido esclavo. Puedes tener toda la grandeza de espíritu, toda la grandeza del alma: eres un esclavo noble o un siervo inteligente: no eres libre.