Quotes About Autonomy

There is no fate. Whatever I do from this point on is down to me. I choose my own path. Write my own story.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

A year of weekly paychecks had created a severe dependency in me, and I desperately needed to break it.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

A liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man, as freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of Nature.

Every man has a property in his person, This nobody has a right to, but himself.

for a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one

Por "república" he entendido constantemente no una democracia ni cualquier otra forma de gobierno, sino cualquier comunidad independiente

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

No nation will ever respect us as long as we beg for that which we can do for ourselves. There has never been a leader of our people who went all-out to set up an economic plan for our people. I use the saying of Jesus, "All before me were thieves and robbers.

She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person.

I replied, 'I do not think as you do.' 'Child, you are not born to think; you were not made to think.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Our compliance is our choice. No one can control someone else (unless the person being controlled allows it). No one controls you—unless you allow that control. Sure, she can put the screws to your head, but ultimately what you do within the circumstances of your life is dependent on what you allow and how much you are willing to sacrifice to have things your own way or to win approval.

You can't protect everyone; you can't stop all the wrong; you can't control someone else.

Objectivity in healthy relationships encourages each person to be responsible for his own choices and actions and the consequences of them.

Interdependency is healthy; dependency is not.

As to wearing the badge of a party, either in politics or religion, I may say that never in my life was I so far from coveting such a thing. And then poetry breathes in another outer air. And then there is not an existent set of any-kind-of-politics I could agree with if I tried —

No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody's ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn't already made up my mind to say.

I don't want what you want," I said. "And I'm not going to help you. I don't even want to argue with you, because while I know that human beings are capable of assimilating, adopting, internalizing, integrating, and identifying with new sets of ideas—because we have, multiple times in the history of the species—I've discovered that I don't actually care what you think, because you are an awful person and you want awful things.