Quotes About Autonomy

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

She was a rule follower but not a crowd follower.

La autonomía es lo menos gratuito de este mundo, y si no se conquista cotidianamente lleva en seguida a situaciones de agravio y servidumbre. Sólo hubo y hay tiranos porque otros prefirierons y prefieren rendirse al miedo antes que correr el riesgo de luchar.

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

He had so little experience, or so little capacity for real introspection, he didn't imagine the guilt and anguish lying in wait; he didn't even ask himself what Judith Biely might be feeling. She didn't exist for him in an autonomous, complete way but only as a projection of his own desire

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Night is a world lit by itself

I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

A man's demonstration of self-respect is to never go down on knees before a woman and his self-protection is to stay away from a person who does or asks the people to do such demeaning, kneel down acts.

A person who has got almost all traits and attributes in-common with the people in his circle is just a follower and not a leader. He can be spotted at any level from top to bottom of the hierarchical ladder with some even whiling away their time by disturbing others.

A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants' people.

He who does not want to ruin own married life should disconnect, from the very first day of their wedding, all communication lines that make his wife to converse with her mother regularly.

The man should stay away, as much as possible, from the person who asked or advised him to get married as it often helps him to get rid of other troubles and struggles in life

When a person starts finding oneself, s/he begins losing people's support proportionately; but if still maintaining or increasing their help on own thought, then it is worth knowing as who s/he is really.

Our life is shaped by our actions not by opinion of others.

Every person has the right to expose himself to whatever disappointment he chooses

Poverty without debt is independence.

Scratch yourself with your own nails; always do your own business, and when you intend asking for a service, go to a person who can appreciate your merit.

Because if you are the mess, you can clean it. Improvement doesn't depend on others.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.