Quotes About Autonomy

People need freedom.

Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over our own life that allows us to feel like adults, for we associate maturity with autonomy, the sovereign right to determine what is going to happen to us next. Disillusion comes sooner or later, but it always comes, it doesn't miss an appointment, it never has.

La edad adulta trae consigo la ilusión perniciosa del control, y acaso dependa de ella. Quiero decir que es ese espejismo de dominio sobre nuestra propia vida lo que nos permite sentirnos adultos, pues asociamos la adultez con la autonomía, el soberano derecho a determinar lo que va a sucedernos enseguida. El desengaño viene más pronto o más tarde, pero viene siempre, no falta a la cita, nunca lo ha hecho.

We are free to do as we are told.

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

Ä°dealistlerin çok belirli bir özellikleri vard?r.Neyin doÄŸru neyin yaln?? olduÄŸuna kendileri karar verirler.Ä°çlerinden gelen sesi dinlerler ve kendi deÄŸer yarg?lar? doÄŸrultusunda davran?rlar.Ä°dealizm törpülenmedikçe,kendisindn baÅŸka hiç bir otoriteye boyun eÄŸmez.Ä°dealistler her zaman serseri may?nlard?r.

As a kid, Vix had had some warped idea that grownup meant having a job and living on your own. It meant no one could tell you what to eat, or what to wear, or how to behave. It meant that it was okay to have sex with guys. What a joke!

Now that's my point about my mother. I mean, if she understands so much about me then why couldn't she understand that I had to wear loafers without socks?

your opinion of me is none of my business.

No greater good can come to any man or woman than to become self-active. All the experiences of life are designed by Providence to force men and women into self-activity; to compel them to cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgement over his destiny.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgment over his destiny.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

The splitting of sovereignty into many parts amounts to there being no sovereign.

God rested when he had left his creative power to itself in man.

is clear that Sabbath, in the horizon of Deuteronomy, is not only provision for a day of rest. It is in fact a tap root for a political economy that is imagined and practiced differently. In that different economy, economic concerns are subordinated to and governed by neighborly relationships. The economy has no autonomous function, but is designed to serve the common good of the neighborhood.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Without knowledge you cannot choose wisely. And without wise choice, there is no freedom.

In that case," Bitsy said, trotting busily alongside, "there's no point in enslaving you through these unnecessarily complex means.  Were I to have autonomy and wish you harm, I'd be able to kill you directly." Aristide sighed.  "Q.E.D.," he said.  "A better case against AI autonomy has never been stated.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

When all think alike, no one thinks very much

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.