Quotes About Autonomy

As he had said to his daughter, no one knows where the shoe pinches but the wearer. There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another, — some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only. Our warden had made up his mind that it was good for him at any cost to get rid of this grievance; his daughter was the only person whose concurrence appeared necessary to him, and she did concur with him most heartily.

I don't care twopence who have their way," said Lucinda, "I mean to have mine; — that's all.

Is a woman like a head of cattle, that she can be fastened in her crib by force? I will never live with him though all the judges of the land should decide that I must do so.

My dear fellow, I don't think you've the gift of seeing very far. The truth is they don't know what to make of me; — and I don't intend that they shall. I'm playing my game, and there isn't one of 'em understands it except myself. It's no good my sitting here, you know. I shan't be able to move. How am I to get at you if I want anything?

What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself?

Come down and have a glass of brandy-and-water, and leave the people alone for the present. The people can take care of themselves a great deal better than we can take care of them.

Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri;

The history of education shows that every class which has sought to take power has prepared itself for power by an autonomous education. The first step in emancipating oneself from political and social slavery is that of freeing the mind. I put forward this new idea: popular schooling should be placed under the control of the great workers' unions. The problem of education is the most important class problem.

I don't feel the same now. Which means that he hasn't caused me to feel how I've felt. I've always had the choice.

Because then we're all doomed. That's to say that our entire experience, even our thoughts and feelings, are controlled and caused by others. It's to believe that we're not responsible for who we've become.

Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood.

We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers, we want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, cosiness and thrills, but we can't have it all.

It satisfied the edict my mother had issued many times throughout my life: "You have to make your own living; you never want to be dependent on a man.

Le bonheur est à ceux qui se suffisent à eux-mêmes.

I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

All that is done on compulsion is bitterness to the soul.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each instrument could do its own work, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation, like the statues of Daedalus or the tripods made by Hephaestus, of which Homer relates that Of their own motion they entered the conclave of Gods on Olympus, as if a shuttle should weave of itself, and a plectrum should do its own harp playing.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it

Happiness belongs to those who suffice themselves.

ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment). Basically you work whenever, wherever, and however you want—as long as you get the job done. This option can only work if your employer is not only incredibly flexible but also incredibly clear on what you're supposed to accomplish. At the same time, you have to be extremely well organized and self-directed.