Quotes About Autonomy

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I will find myself defending both her right to struggle and our obligation to remember.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

Women of my generation were given the lavish gift of our own agency by feminism—a belief that we could decide for ourselves how we would live, what would become of us.

We don't get to choose our blood families, but we do get to decide how to talk to them, how much to tell them, and how open to be with them about the core of who we are. --Erynn Rowan Laurie

I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and that my happiness, my true salvation, was not dependent on the approval of others. --Gregory Michael Brewer

entirely up to us. I find it amazing that we're all

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

I feel I'm my own quarterback and have accomplished my own things.

I was an athlete in college - a quarterback, a leader - so people telling me what to do doesn't work.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

It's going to be very, very different from 'The White Queen.' Rather than it being a follow-up, I think 'The White Princess' is definitely a standalone show.

I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.

As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me.

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

The thought has crossed my mind to quit even dealing with organized mixed martial arts in general and just fight my own fights, however I feel like.