Quotes About Autonomy

'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.

Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.

I'm an honest person and don't lead my life on other people's terms.

I've lived the world on my own terms. I do what I enjoy. I enjoy what I do.

For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

I just want to do things on my own terms as much as possible.

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

Hong Kong is the city with the highest degree of freedom of all the Chinese territories.

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.

A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do.

You're not a slave to those test audiences.

My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.

They've kind of backed off and allowed me to do what I do. I think that's the biggest testament is that they know when to have a hand in things, and they know when to back off, let me work, and let me do my thing. During my time in NXT, they have definitely done that.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.