Quotes About Autonomy

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

They tell me I have got a mind of my own, but sometimes it's like my mind itself has its own mind.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us." We might paraphrase, saying, "Herein is personhood, not to will autonomously, but to be and to act for the sake of others.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

Either he must cease to think for himself; or his individualism must be instantly confirmed, and the necessity of religious independence must be emphasized.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

Estamos convencidas o somos nada más que un eco de lo que ellos piensan? O peor: ¿Ya me parezco tanto a Rosa que ni siquiera me doy cuenta de que padezco la misma dependencia?

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power or means to coerce others.

Grown men do not need leaders.

I'm not sure that I care for the idea of strangers examining my daily habits and folkways, studying my language, inspecting my costume, questioning me about my religion, classifying my artifacts, investigating my sexual rites and evaluating my chances for cultural survival. So I lived alone.

Where're your papers?" "My what?" "Your I.D. -- draft card, social security, driver's license." "Don't have none. Don't need none. I already know who I am.

What little thinking I do is my own and I do it on government time.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Liberty is the right to silence.

Have it your way.

The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.