Quotes About Autonomy

the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.

how often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them.

The existence of autonomous individuals free to criticize was once a landmark of our civilization.

I don't like to touch, and I don't like to be touched.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don't like to use those terms: gay rights, women's rights, minority rights, religious rights. There's only one type of right. It's the right to your liberty.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

Freedom means not only that our economic activity ought to be free and voluntary, but that government should stay out of our personal affairs as well.

I always support secession, and I think that the founders made a mistake by not having that in the Constitution…

A free society acknowledges that authority over education begins with the family. I am not saying that a free society grants that authority. I do not believe that such authority is delegated by society.

only liberty can truly ward off tyranny, the great and eternal foe of mankind.

You cannot control how others treat you, but by pushing the pause button, by taking time to choose your response to situations, you can be far more in control and far more likely to make appropriate decisions.

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Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

And when all feels hopeless, remember that you are in charge of what goes into your body, you don't answer to anyone, and you are allowed to eat anything you want. Often just knowing we can eat whatever we want is enough to keep us from eating whatever we want. We're so rebellious.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter (Freheit ist immer die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden)

La #Intimidad: no tener muy claro donde acabas tú y empieza el otro.