Quotes About Autonomy

Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

You've got to live and die by your decisions.

You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.

I've just never really gotten caught up in what people think about me, because I can't control that.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

Britain must govern Britain and nothing less will do.

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

Sports can't be run by governments.

Parents, not governments, should decide what is best for their family.

I believe in small governments or no governments. I think the majority of people want to have big government, a big brother taking care of them.

In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do.

You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up.

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

Each man ought to be granted the dignity and respect to decide his own destiny.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling' is really not a wrestling book. It's a book about life, and there's a great love story in this book. There are great life lessons in this book about not allowing others to define you.

I want to retire how I want to retire - and I have a great opportunity to do that.

The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.