Quotes About Autonomy

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Our children are not extensions of ourselves. We did not create them; God did. We are here to supervise their development, not dictate their reality. They are their own beings.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless.

We can become more perceptive, more in charge of our own reality, as loneliness makes life compelling. Vitally, loneliness assures us that our life is our own.

We are not responsible to the .90 calibers the pezzonovantis who take it upon themselves to decide what we shall do with out lives, who declare wars they wish us to fight in to protect what they own... And who are they then to meddle when we look after our own interests? Sonna cosa nostra...these are our own affairs. We will manage our world for ourselves because it is our world, cosa nostra

you can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living.

All of these men were good listeners, patient men. They had one other thing in common. They were those rarities, men who had refused to accept the rule of organized society, men who refused the dominion of other men. There was no force, no mortal man who could bend them to their will unless they wished it. They were men who guarded their free will with wiles and murder. Their wills could be subverted only by death. Or the utmost reasonableness.

Sólo la libertad le interesaba ahora para manejar su soledad a su capricho, llevarla a un cine, encerrarse con ella en cualquier parte.

Solo la libertad le interesaba ahora para manejar su soledad a su capricho.

La libertad está estrechamente ligada a la coerción, es decir a aquello que la niega o limita.

Mientras menor sea la autoridad que se ejerza sobre mi conducta, mientras ésta pueda ser determinada de manera más autónoma por mis propias motivaciones —mis necesidades, ambiciones, fantasías personales—, sin interferencia de voluntades ajenas, más libre soy. Éste es el concepto «negativo» de la libertad.

En verdad, fue un individualista recalcitrante, constitutivamente alérgico a ceder un ápice de su independencia y a disolverla en lo gregario, lo que, de hecho, lo convertía en un enemigo declarado de toda doctrina y formación política colectivista, como el fascismo, el nazismo o el comunismo, de los que fue adversario sistemático y pugnaz toda su vida.

How does it feel to say no to the one man to whom you have always said yes? How does it feel when you stand up to him and reject all he has never questioned?

You want the girl next door? Go next door!

Guns may shoot and knives may carve, but we won't wear your silly scarves!

If there was one ideological rationale that had broad appeal, it was nationalism, which for many boiled down to a fervent desire to be left alone.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom

Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

Quando avrò una laurea in matematica, o in fisica, o in matematica e fisica, troverò un lavoro e guadagnerò un sacco di soldi e sarò in grado di pagare qualcuno che si occupi di me e cucini per me e mi lavi i vestiti, oppure troverò una donna che mi sposi e si prenda cura di me, che mi faccia un po' di compagnia per non rimanere da solo.

Mother used to say that it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.