Quotes About Autonomy

Overweening arrogance and why not? No one had told him no for a very long time.

Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair.

This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is seen as liberty--even if the poverty of those in nearby cities robs them of all meaningful autonomy by narrowing their choices to the meanest and the shabbiest of options. In this way, defendants in these cases seem to polarize two of the principles that lie close to the origins of this republic. Liberty and equity are seen as antibodies to each other.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

I can't be your ghost right now. I need to exist

I was beginning to understand that the best kinds of freedom involved choosing your constraints wisely, and claiming them as your own.

One other thing, Esmira," Solomon said as they stepped through. "I'm not your master. If this should be the last hour of your life, try not to need one.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Are you mine?" Yes. "Are you mine?" Yes. "Are you mine?" No. "No?" No. I loved being yours. But now I'm mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

But seriously, Gracie. You can't let people walk all over you. They're just people. What right do they have?

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. Nineteen Eighty-Four             MYAUNGMYA

He's entitled not to love me, but he's not entitled to mess with my happy place.

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

la libertad es un recurso que sólo existe en primera persona. La libertad no puede ser dada por alguien más: es algo que la persona misma debe tomar.

Quien tiene educada la voluntad es más libre y puede llevar su vida hacia donde quiera.

Platón afirmaba que «cada uno es la causa de su propia elección»; y

I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

God has entrusted me with myself.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

Only the educated are free.