Quotes About Autonomy

Free speech is unthinkable. All other kinds of freedom are permitted. You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself.

Il comandamento dei dispotismi di una volta era: Tu non devi!. Il comandamento dei totalitari era: Tu devi!. Il nostro è: Tu sei!.

These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and especially against the lethal temptation to exchange freedom for security: a bargain that invariably ends up with the surrender of both.

Mais, à tout prendre, les animaux trouvaient plaisir à ces célébrations. Ils étaient confortés dans l'idée d'être leurs propres maîtres, après tout, et ainsi d'Å"uvrer à leur propre bien.

Kuid on ka andekate, isemeelsete inimeste vähemus, kelle määranguks on omaenda elu lõpuni elada, ja kirjanikud kuuluvad sellesse klassi.

Have I the soul of a slave or the soul of a free man?

All men labor under some impingements on their freedom; none is absolutely at liberty.

Randall Jarrell said about stories holds true for the writers of stories: they "don't want to know, don't want to care, they just want to do as they please.

That thing in my box? he said. Has nothing to do with me.

My parents never projected their dreams onto me. If they hoped I would be a great pitcher, or political figure, or artist (no chance), they never told me about it. Their view of parenting was to offer love and encourage me to chart my own path.

To choose evil is to choose freedom—"freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

I do not like your name, sir," she answered. "There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily.

It is high time you realised that you are of age, and may do as you please. Now, be off, and don't neglect to change your stockings!

His lordship detested independently-minded subordinates. It was not the business of his officers to think for themselves.

For he seldom fails who is not wanting to himself; while those who depend upon the assistance of others, appear very often to fall short of their aims.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, "Are we free?" I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?

My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

I have worked for everything. I am self-made and proud of it.

There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked it out for themselves.

In the case of '3,' the makers let me be. That worked out really well.

The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

You have to keep working hard to deliver happiness to customers and you have to control your own destiny.