Quotes About Autonomy

No man is free who is not master of himself.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

What was most important in Epicurus' philosophy of nature was the overall conviction that our life on this earth comes with no strings attached; that there is no Maker whose puppets we are; that there is no script for us to follow and be constrained by; that it is up to us to discover the real constraints which our own nature imposes on us.

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

Kiitosta ei pidä kerjätä ja itse meidän tulee kantaa vastuu elämämme parantamisesta.

If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Spontaneity means option, the freedom to choose and express one's feelings from the assortment available.

Do you mind?' He inquired politely as he lowered himself into the chair. 'Do I mind what?' She examined his ears as if they were curious phenomena. 'Rabies, dogs, aged relatives or standing around in the rain?' 'Do you mind me sitting here?' 'I can please myself whether or not I endure it. That's freedom, isn't it?

Damn! - I'd rather walk into something of my own accord than to be frogmarched into it." "So it says here in the file. James Mowry, twenty-six, restless and pigheaded. Can be trusted to do anything at all - provided the alternative is worse." "You sound like my father. Did he tell you that?" "The Service does not reveal its sources of information.

Rely on no one. Depend on no one for your happiness. I am declaring my independence. I am establishing a republic unto myself. I am seceding from the human race.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Do you know why so many of us live alone?" a Swedish statistician I interview in the charming Old Town district asks me. He quickly answers his own question: "Because we can.

ideas could stand on their own.

one's thoughts were regulated by the power of the state, how could one really be free?

that country where they wouldn't be told what to think or how to live or even whether or how to worship.

Every free-born American has a right to name his own necessities.

Startup teams need complete autonomy to develop and market new products within their limited mandate. They have to be able to conceive and execute experiments without having to gain an excessive number of approvals.