Quotes About Autonomy

Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

To each his own fear';

Each dog barks in its own yard.

But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself

Each dog barks in his own yard!

India is the one place in the world where a man can do as he pleases and nobody asks why;

I am not like Kagura! I'm not Naraku's tool! I am my own master!- Hakudoshi

Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.

And leave me alone when I tell ya to. I will have things to do that are private. I cannot always have you trailing around with me like a strand of goose grass.

What ails people, they can't let their kids alone, he thought, turning back into the barn. As if their kids was property they owned, and not livin', breathin' people.

You are who you are, Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

that you don't suffer because of someone else. There's never anyone but

You might be a chicken or a human being, but show a little rebelliousness and the next thing you knew you were all on your own.

To be able to choose your own pain - it's a little scary, she thought, but it's wonderful, too.

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

It was good to have subordinates who didn't need their t's crossed and the i's dotted . p.173

In the end, everyone can do without fathers

Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.

I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.

It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state.

Everyone had learned that it was worth giving up privacy for the merest possibility of fame, and the idea that only a private self was truly autonomous and free had be lost in the static of the airwaves.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. - Notebook, 1894