Quotes About Autonomy

If you cannot live alone, then you were born a slave.

Pertencer - eis a banalidade. Credo, ideal, mulher ou profissão - tudo isso é a cela e as algemas. Ser é estar livre.

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. - The Book of Disquiet

One who has never lived under constraints doesn't know what freedom is.

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

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.

To belong to something – that's banal. Creeds, ideals, a woman, or profession – nothing but prisons and shackles. To be is to be free. Even ambition is a burden if it is based only on futile pride and passion. We wouldn't be so proud of it if we realized it's just a string by which we're pulled.

If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.

Ne zevk, ne ün, ne iktidar; özgürlük, yaln?z özgürlük.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one

Em jogo estaria a seguinte tese: pode um homem, psicológica e espiritualmente, viver de um modo completamente autossuficiente, sem precisar de mais ninguém?

I'm two people who mutually keep their distance — Siamese twins living separate lives.

Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás.

No el placer, no la gloria, no el poder: la libertad, únicamente la libertad.

To be born free is Man's greatest quality; it is what makes the humble hermit superior to kings, superior even to the gods, who are sufficient unto themselves only by virtue of their power but not by virtue of their disdain for it.

Özgürlük, yaln?z kalabilmeye denir. Ä°nsanlardan uzaklaÅŸabiliyorsan, onlara hiçbir muhtaçl???n, paraya ihtiyac?n, sürüye uyma içgüdün, aÅŸka, ÅŸana ÅŸöhrete hevesin ya da merak?n yoksa özgürsündür, bunlar?n hepsi sadece yaln?zl?ktan ve sessizlikten beslenir. Yaln?z yaÅŸayam?yorsan, doÄŸuÅŸtan kölesin demektir.

Não o prazer, não a glória, não o poder: a liberdade, unicamente a liberdade

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento.

El que no hace más que huir del castigo y buscar la recompensa que dispensan otros, según normas establecidas por ellos, no es mejor que un pobre esclavo.

La única libertad que merece ese nombre es la de buscar nuestro propio bien, por nuestro camino propio, en tanto no privemos a los demás del suyo o les impidamos esforzarse por conseguirlo. Cada uno es el guardián natural de su propia salud, sea física, mental o espiritual. La humanidad sale más gananciosa consintiendo a cada cual vivir a su manera que obligándole a vivir a la manera de los demás» (John Stuart Mill, Sobre la libertad).

sino libres para responder a lo que nos pasa de tal o cual modo

La vida del hombre no puede "ser vivida" repitiendo los patrones de su especie; es él mismo –

O sea que él debe seguir siendo él y tú tienes que seguir siendo tú.

Libertad es decidir, pero también, no lo olvides, darte cuenta de que estás decidiendo.