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Quotes About Autonomy

If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad.
~ Francine Rivers
The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.
~ Francine Rivers
Did Honoring mean to do everything you were told without question? Did it mean swift capitulation? Did it mean giving up yourself for the sake of living out someone else's dreams? No matter what that dream was?
~ Francine Rivers
Emily,' she said, 'I am going to ask you to Mallowe on the 2nd. I want you to help me to take care of people and keep them from boring me and each other, though I don't mind their boring each other half so much as I mind their boring me. I want to be able to go off and take my nap at any hour I choose. I will *not* entertain people. What you can do is to lead them off to gather things or look at church towers. I hope you'll come.
~ Francis Hodgson Burnett
Õppetund oli pikk ja ränk olnud, kuid ta oli õppust võtnud. Kui sa ise ei mõtle, peavad teised sinu eest mõtlema, ja need teised röövivad sult jõu, tõmbavad su liistule, pööravad sulle loomult omased maitsed pea peale, ohjeldavad sind ja muudavad steriilseks.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The result, in this world view, is that real freedom comes not from the decisions of an ego-self's "will" but from action without any Self whatsoever
~ Francisco J. Varela
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.
~ Frank Herbert
We've lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?
~ Frank Herbert
Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.
~ Frank Herbert
Sloboda može bit vrlo samotno stanje.
~ Frank Herbert
Freedom is a lonely state.
~ Frank Herbert
The slave makes an awful master
~ Frank Herbert
Özgürlük bir yaln?zl?k halidir.
~ Frank Herbert
A wise man depends upon his friends for information and upon himself for decisions
~ Frank Herbert
As each day passes, you become increasingly unreal, more alien and remote from what I find myself to be on that new day. I am the only reality and, as you differ from me, you lose reality. The more curious I become, the less curious are those who worship me. Religion suppresses curiosity. What I do subtracts from the worshipper. Thus it is that eventually I will do nothing, giving it all back to frightened people who will find themselves on that day alone and forced to act for themselves.
~ Frank Herbert
Never follow a leader without asking your own questions.
~ Frank Herbert
Var olmak, arkaplan?n parças? olmay? reddetmektir.
~ Frank Herbert
O filho que se recusa a seguir jornada sob a tutela do pai constitui o símbolo da mais peculiar capacidade humana. Não tenho de ser o que meu pai foi. Não tenho de obedecer às regras do meu pai e nem acreditar em tudo que ele acreditou. É minha força como humano poder fazer minhas próprias escolhas a respeito daquilo em que acreditar ou não, a respeito do que ser e do que não ser.
~ Frank Herbert
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.
~ Frank Herbert
Recherchez la liberté et devenez esclave de vos désirs. Recherchez la discipline et trouvez votre liberté.
~ Frank Herbert
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be." —Leto Atreides II The Harq al-Ada Biography
~ Frank Herbert
Copilul care refuz? s? mearg? în lesa tat?lui - acesta este simbolul supremei capacit??i a omului. "Nu am a fi ceea ce a fost tat?l meu. Nu am a m? supune regulilor stabilite de tat?l meu sau a crede tot ce-a crezut el. Ca fiin?? uman?, forÈ›a mea const? în aceea c? pot s? aleg singur ce s? cred È™i ce s? nu cred, ce s? fiu È™i ce s? nu fiu.
~ Frank Herbert
holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.   —
~ Frank Herbert
Freedom lies within.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright