Quotes About Autonomy

From now on, no one rewires my mind but me.

What is the best government? — That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Tis order woman seeketh; freedom, man.

Bin weder Fräulein, weder schön, kann ungeleitet nach Hause gehn.

Si, mio caro, mi rendo conto ogni giorno di più di quanto sia sciocco voler valutare gli altri in base a se stessi. E poiché io con me stesso ho tanto da fare, e poiché questo mio cuore è così impetuoso, lascerei volentieri che gli altri andassero per la loro strada, se solo anch'essi mi lasciassero andare per la mia.

I'm neither a lady nor am I fair, And can go home without your care. (She frees herself and exits.)

I'm going to take care of this little matter myself, since you obviously won't.

While I don't doubt your word, m'dear, I must point out that one person can never fully control another's actions.

Do for yourself, for no one else will.

Acknowledging that you do not have complete free will, or complete conscious control, actually increases the amount of free will and control you truly have.

The more that people share decisions affecting their working life, the more they are motivated to carry them out

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.

While freedom can be a state of nature, liberty requires a degree of self-discipline. It is the essence of self-governance.

Freedom all solace to man gives;He lives at ease that freely lives.

Don't you feel cut off?" I asked. "Cut off from what?" she replied. "No, on the whole I'd say we rather enjoy our separateness.

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

One's death is already one's own. It belongs to nobody else: not even to a killer. This means that it is already part of one's life.

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a line, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You can't draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

A patient can have as many diagnoses as [she] damn well pleases.

In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical?

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

Non avevo mai avuto l'impressione di crescere all'ombra di mia madre: vivevo nel mio mondo, uno spazio di cui lei aveva delimitato i confini, lasciandomi però libera di riempirlo come meglio credevo. Mia madre viveva come aveva scelto di vivere, e sapevo che il lavoro era la cosa che contava di più per lei, ma questo consentiva anche a me di vivere come volevo e di decidere liberamente cosa contava di più per me...

It's harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.