Quotes About Autonomy

Over the next eight years, almost without noticing, I arrived at a quiet revelation. You could make a home by yourself. You could fill that home with friends and friendly strangers without someone sleeping next to you. You could tend your garden and cook your meals and find predictable pleasure in your own autonomy.

She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.

I can't have you making tea for me. It's not decent.

man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.

Poole and Bowman had often humorously referred to themselves as caretakers or janitors aboard a ship that could really run itself. They would have been astonished, and more than a little indignant, to discover how much truth that jest contained.

Personally, I refuse to drive a car - I won't have anything to do with any kind of transportation in which I can't read.

There was no objection when he said: "I'm going after it." Nor did he expect there to be; his life was now his own, to do with as he pleased. He

a man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.

Dr. C. informs me that, in technical terminology, Hal became trapped in a Hofstadter–Moebius loop, a situation apparently not uncommon among advanced computers with autonomous goal-seeking programs. He suggests that for further information you contact Professor Hofstadter himself.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

Nothing a woman gives is worth having unless she gives it of her own free will.

They cannot put their stamp upon your soul

though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we'd do a better job of it.

Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either.

I will relinquish my possession of this self of mine, abdicate, give over willingly what I never wanted at all; whatever it wants of me it can have.

If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree.

Why don't you grow up by yourself?

I have no way of knowing what we may be called upon to do for ourselves.

When I tell a story, I tell it when I want to tell it, not when you want to hear it.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.