Quotes About Autonomy

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

In the final analysis we are all our own teachers and our own pupils and that is as it should be.

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

Kendi hammaddesini, kendi kabiliyet kudret ve ihtiraslar?yla yo?urmu?tur. Bu suretle ve bu ak?? içinde, her tarihi ?ahsiyet gibi o da, kendini yaratm??t?r. Zaten 'Tek Adam' demek, bu demek de?il midir?

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

Please don't take offense, but I want no part of this family or what comes with it.

When it comes to girls, you make your own invitations.

I am a rank individualist.

I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.

I'm always trying to do every part myself, you know what I mean? I'm trying to sing, rap, whatever. I'm trying to do it all.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

I was one of the rare guys who never wanted to sign a contract.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

When I made 'Lil Boat,' my first mixtape, I didn't have a drop date, a due date. I didn't have critics rating on it; I was just making it. And then when I finished it, I dropped it at my own smoothness, at my own pace.

I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.