Quotes About Autonomy

When one has lived so much for others it is quite hard to turn oneself back again— to live for oneself.

To want to prohibit a man from error is to forbid him to fulfill his own existence, it is to deprive him of life.

Nature does not define woman: it is she who defines herself by reclaiming nature for herself in her affectivity.

only the subject can justify his own existence; no external subject, no object, can bring him salvation from the outside. He can not be regarded as a nothing, since the consciousness of all things is within him.

Y, ¿ante los ojos de quién mi conducta es fuga, si para mí es libre elección de un fin?

That's what's so wonderful about you, you're so self-sufficient that I feel that you've created your own self.

Qué esperamos pues del otro? Estaría equivocada en esperar que el otro me llevara lejos a través de un devenir sin fin: ningún acto humano se propaga hasta el infinito. Lo que otro crea a partir de mí no es ya mío.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

God created our autonomy so we would have the possibility of renouncing it for love. For that very reason we must desire to conserve the autonomy in our fellows.

The plant exercises no control, no choice in the affair of its own growth. We, though, are like a plant that can choose whether or not to expose itself to the light.

all of the good-intentioners who wanted to 'do something for the common people' were insignificant, because the 'common people' were able to do things for themselves, and highly likely to, as soon as they learned the fact.

My dear man, there's nothing I'd like better than to be by myself occasionally... I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream delicately and satisfy my tempermentality while you wander in from the bathroom with lather all over your face and shout seen my brown pants?

I don't altogether admire everything Germany and Italy have done, but you've got to hand it to 'em, they've been honest enough and realistic enough to say to the other nations, 'Just tend to your own

He was not a Babbitt, not a Rotarian, not an Elk, not a deacon.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Every time we lobbied them for the right to choose whether or not we will have children, we acknowledged that men owned us.

We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that.

I think you need to start thinking less about what you owe other people and more about what you owe yourself.

Linus might come over. He might not. Either way is fine. Either way, his decision is about himself, not about you. You are not responsible for his feelings.

It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK to say, 'I'm not going to share that'.

I'm going to make my life work for me. I'm not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It's my life, which means I get to choose how it goes. Even if that means wrestling it to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying: Take that, life!

I´m going to make my life work for me. I´m not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It´s my life, wich means wrestling i to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying, Take that, life!

I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.