Quotes About Autonomy

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Well-meant protectiveness undermines autonomy... When a will to act is thwarted, it atrophies into a wish to be taken care of.

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

In brief, it states that parents are responsible for the what, when, and where of feeding, and children are responsible for the how much and whether of eating. At the time, it was revolutionary to insist that children know how much they needed to eat and that all children, even "too thin" or "too fat" children, must be allowed to eat as little or as much as they want.

I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...

Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what was not itself, its autonomous existence, its special status, its empire, its tyranny. I remember quite clearly that afternoon when, for the first time, confronting the empty universe, I was no more than a passage of moments reluctant to go on playing their proper parts. Time was coming unstuck from being—at my expense.

It is our discomforts which provoke, which create consciousness; their task accomplished, they weaken and disappear one after the other. Consciousness however remains and survives them, without recalling what it owes to them, without even ever having known. Hence it continually proclaims its autonomy, its sovereignty, even when it loathes itself and would do away with itself.

Children turn, and must turn, against their parents, and the parents can do nothing about it, for they are subject to a law which decrees the relations among all the living: i.e., that each engenders his own enemy.

This world can take everything from us, can forbid us everything, but no one has the power to keep us from wiping ourselves out.

What right have you to pray for me? I need no intercessor, I shall manage alone.

The right to suppress everyone that bothers us should rank first in the constitution of the ideal State.

Liberty is the daughter of authority properly understood. For to be free is not to do what one pleases; it is to be the master of oneself, it is to know how to act within reason and to do one's duty.

We see another facet of this freedom when

I want to see how I can exist by myself. I want to be allowed to live inside my memory.

I would rather be single. I cannot possibly say that.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.