Quotes About Autonomy

I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

Raistlin did not walk the paths of light, nor did he walk the shadowed paths of darkness. He walked his own path, in his own way, of his own choosing.

People refuse to take responsibility for their own lives. They want someone to tell them what to do, and they want someone to blame when it all goes wrong.

Be the hero of your own life. Don't let someone else play that role." "Be the hero of my own life," Alfred repeated softly.

Grita que no hay que esperar nada, nunca, ni de ninguna persona, ni de ningún Estado ni de ningún Dios

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

Yaln?zl?k... Onlar?n inand??? gibi inanm?yorum, onlar?n yaÅŸad??? gibi yaÅŸam?yorum, onlar?n sevdiÄŸi gibi sevmiyorum... Onlar?n öldüÄŸü gibi öleceÄŸim.

Self-employed - which was even better. After all, I had the best boss in the world. Even if she was a bit of a Tyrant (Iduna)

I wake with a thought: This is my life. I've only got one. I should live it the way I want

No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.

20:11 At what time is it acceptable to go to bed? I suspect nothing short of 10 p.m. will do. Okay, I can wait until 10 p.m. 20:14 I go to bed. I am my own person. I can do as I please. I am not hidebound by the silly, bourgeois rules of our society.

It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don't care whether you have it or not.

Don't give anyone the proxy for your conscience.

Wanneer kinderen groter worden verdedigen ze hun geheimen uit alle macht. Anders zouden ze door hun moeders worden verslonden. Het ergste wat ik ken zijn jongelui die alles met hun moeder delen. Die worden nooit vrij.