Quotes About Autonomy

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.

If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?

Be beholden to no one, he had said. Make sure you owe nobody any favors.

I'll be fine. I'm a big boy now, you know.

We don't want to have to come and rescue you.

A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself . . . . He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

we are unique individuals with unique experiences

Not to be needed is a slow death for a man.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

In a world of bosses, you are your own master

to see her not merely as a bundle of stereotypes or as a convenient and tenuously linked series of myths, but as a whole woman whose choices added up and whose decisions made sense.

The Bible must retain its autonomy and speak for itself. But that is also true when we hold traditional interpretations up to the Bible. The biblical text must retain its autonomy from tradition. We must always be willing to return to the text and consider it with fresh eyes.

Take charge of your life or someone else will!

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we accept that they're doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner.

Success depends on the flair, skills and initiative of people who cannot be effectively supervised.

Most people don't lead their own lives - they accept their lives.

Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside.

Who really needs to be commanded to love? Anyone who has loved anything in life, be it another person, an animal, a place in nature, a work of art—whatever—knows that love comes by its own power. It cannot and need not be commanded.