Quotes About Autonomy

good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

It's because I love you that I don't want you to go." "My God, Bill, I don't want that kind of love. 'I love you, so hold still while I tie you down.' What hurts is that it's you doing it. If you can't have me as my own woman, able to make my own decisions and take care of myself, you can't have me at all.

Sooner or later everybody demands that I be what they want me to be, and now you're doing it.

If you can't have me as my own woman, able to make my own decisions and take care of myself, you can't have me at all.

The issue is freedom. Freedom internally. Freedom domestically.

Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

Out here a man settles his own problems

A perfect day is: Nobody calls with a problem they can handle themselves.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Most people […] prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else

a minute freed from the order of time has recreated in us ... the individual freed from the order of time,

You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.

The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. I can entertain myself quite well for weeks together, hardly aware, except for the pervading peace, that I have been alone at all.

Strong people do not need strong leaders.

Strong people don't need strong leaders.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

Men love independent women because they leave them alone. They love chasing women who are busy. It gives them a thrill, as big as a touchdown or a home run.

We accept that some people don't want us and we go on to the next. We don't force people to love us.

Dios nunca quiso que una mente humana estuviera bajo el dominio completo de otra.