Quotes About Autonomy

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

Put your future in good hands — your own.

Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Words want to be free!

These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

I don't rent space to anyone in my head.

I am told that it is for my good that I am governed; however, as I give my money to be governed, it follows that it is for my good that I give my money, which is possible; but which nevertheless deserves to be checked.

Let me govern myself, and I cannot fail in my instinct which is to seek my good.

If artificial intelligence and engineering can take us there, why not? Provided the engineered creatures are under human supervision, provided they have no way of acquiring autonomy and turning against us, and provided we will not have the means to program robots such that they can destroy the world, why not? It must be added that there are several dark scenarios regarding not so much future robots as future AI programs that do have doomsday potential and that need to be watched for.

Nobody has the power to imprison your mind, dictate your emotions, or enslave your soul - unless you let them.

It is against every law of the spirit world that one person can assume responsibility for another's wrongdoing.

When it does come they will taste for the first time the real meaning of freedom.

Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife.

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

We can force treatment on those who would refuse (chapters 1, 4 and 6); we can separate people from their families.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

Say your thing and get out of here. And if they profit, that's fine, and if they don't, too bad!

Then say to this person, "I have no right to make any demands on you." In saying that, you will drop your expectation. "I have no right to make any demands on you. Oh, I'll protect myself from the consequences of your actions or your moods or whatever, but you can go right ahead and be what you choose to be. I have no right to make any demands on you.

llegamos a la cuarta verdad, que te lleva a la inevitable conclusión de que ninguna cosa o persona que no seas tú tiene el poder de hacerte feliz o desdichado.