Quotes About Autonomy

The second kind you make yourself. Most people, most of their lives, most of their problems, they simply invite into their lives, sweep out a guestroom for each pain, and give it free lodging and board.

The best government is no government at all.

For it is a   moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as   right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to   others.         

pois nas mulheres, e em particular nas do nosso tipo, por melhor que seja a disposição dos nossos corações, há sempre uma parte rainha que se autogoverna e que tem suas próprias razões de Estado, e dentre estas a mais forte é a que manda jamais se confundir a vontade com o ato.

They were called "rooms," but it was still a cell. A room you could leave when you chose to do so; a cell you could not.

As philosophy professor Dale Miller asks, "if the business owner is willing to accept less responsibility for her decisions, then why should she expect as much freedom in making them?

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

self respect. self reliance. self control.

Lord of yourself, uncumber'd with a wife.

It's as if there is no more room in their lives for parents.

Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.

Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else's values. We must find our own.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.