Quotes About Autonomy

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound.

Now you listen to me, Joe. You will not badger or harrass me. You will leave me to think the way I want to think, here. I have to heal any way I can. You will stop asking questions and you will not give me any worry. You will not go after him. You will not terrify me, Joe. I've had enough fear for my whole life. You will not add to my fear. You will not add to my sorrows. You will not be part of this.

Having discarded several older partners, the young man had no real business mentors, heroes, or role models and was beholden to no one.

Rockefeller was now self-supporting and entirely free of his father

Yet she decided never to marry and to remain self-sufficient.

always inner-directed and indifferent to the approval of others

This refusal to truckle, bend, or bow to others, this insistence on dealing with other people on his own terms, time, and turf, distinguished Rockefeller throughout his career.

Also, by having autonomous conventions approve the Constitution, the new republic would derive its legitimacy not from the statehouses but directly from the citizenry, enabling federal law to supersede state legislation. With

To preserve their autonomy, they sequestered half their voting stock in the hands of five men eternally sworn to keep it free of Standard influence.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty

If [the people of the world] are incapable, as some would have us believe, of self-government, then where among them do we find any who are capable of governing others?

Use your imagination, I tell my students these days, or someone else is going to use it for you.

Porque cada cual es dueño de su destino... o al menos debe actuar como si lo fuera.

Eu son libre, nada pode conter a marcha dos meus pensamentos, e eles son a lei que rexe o meu destino

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

She cared for everybody, and yet for no person's opinion.

Self-reliance has nothing to do with selfishness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's simply a well that doesn't run dry until the day you die and you don't need it any more.

Soy hija de mí misma. De mi sueño nací. Mi sueño me sostiene.

I am the daughter of myself. I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.

recent issue of the weekly magazine The Economist (2 June 2012) on 'Morals and the machine' raises some pertinent issues about the degree of autonomy reached by robots and calls for society to develop new rules to manage them.

El hombre ha nacido libre y por doquiera se encuentra sujeto con cadenas.

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!