Quotes About Autonomy

follow Churchill's admonition, "I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you,"123

If any "white supremacist" were really a "supremacist", he wouldn't be living in his mom's basement.

The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being.

regard appeals to authority as somewhat unAmerican

disregard other

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Every woman stayed alone in her house in those days, like a coin in a safe. Amy and I lived alone with our mother most of the day. Amy was three years younger than I. Mother and Amy and I went our separate ways in peace.

This sounds like positive social change, right? Anything the revs are against is surely a good thing. Fine-looking women, smoking and drinking and gambling and doing whatever they like? Sounds good!

The American woman's interest does not lie in the man; she wants to be alone, and she can't be alone without dabbling, today in chemistry, to-morrow in physiology and the day after in Buddhism.

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom.

A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

El hombre que no puede elegir ha perdido la condición humana.

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When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

When it comes to the areas of your life that matter most—your family, your faith, your health, your finances—you can't rely on anybody else to tell you what to do. It's great to get coaching from experts in the field, but you can't outsource the final decision. You can't give another person control over your destiny, no matter how sincere or skilled he or she may be.

If you don't make decisions about how you're going to live, then you've already made a decision, haven't you? You're making a decision to be directed by the environment instead of shaping your own destiny.

The next time you're feeling uncertain, remind yourself that you're the creator of your life, not a manager of circumstances.

Shall a man have nothing of his own; -- no sorrow in his heart, no care in his family, no thought in his breast so private and special to him, but that, if he happen to be a clergyman, the bishop may touch it with his thumb?' I am not the bishop's thumb,' said Mr. Thumble

Marry Oswald, and be your own mistress." "I mean to be my own mistress without marrying Oswald, though I don't see my way quite clearly as yet. I think I shall set up a little house of my own, and let the world say what it pleases. I suppose they couldn't make me out to be a lunatic.