Quotes About Autonomy

When you re the only one to do something it always gets done.

Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"--to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

Silence is autonomous. It is beyond us; our task is to coordinate our being with the greater Being of Silence.

When you have a project, do it exactly as you see fit; then fit the facts around the event, not the other way around.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

So if the conscious mind isn't in control, what is in control?

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Yo ahora era un hombre libre, y ¿qué tiene que ver la sociedad con la libertad?

So I ended up being an anarchist. I was the only anarchist I knew and thank god, because otherwise I would have stopped being an anarchist. Unanimity pisses me off immensely.

To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.

It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.

You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.

I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Cats talk to whomever they please.

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not because someone decreed if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

I can take all my pasts, keep them and determine my own future. I don't have to be what anyone made me, Brashen. I can be Paragon.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you.

Be content with you own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow.' She frowned up at him. 'Even when you see, with absolute clarity, that is wrong for them? That they hurt themselves?' 'Perhaps people have a right to their pain,' he hazarded. Reluctantly he added, 'Perhaps they even need it.

She knew, with vast certainty, that she would never desire to be kissed by a man who had first asked her permission.

I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

All I ever wanted to do was live my own life. And I'm having damn little success at that." p. 250: Brashen Trell and Amber