Quotes About Autonomy

nature allows no master over itself.

The idea of autonomous individuals choosing everything—their beliefs and values, their history and traditions, their social forms and family structures—is a vainglorious idea, and could only have been invented by thinkers who felt compelled to construct society out of theories.

I can't help noticing you appear to be traveling by yourself." "Yes, it's all the rage. Women looking after themselves. We'll be getting the vote any day, too, from what I hear.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Eu dirijo. É tudo o que eu faço. Não fico sentado enquanto você planeja a coisa ou a prepara. Você me diz onde começamos, em que direção devemos ir, para onde devemos seguir depois, em que horário. não me meto, não conheço ninguém, não ando armado. Eu dirijo.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.

It is my experience, stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want, to live and be happy in the world, is a women who has her own life and let's you have yours.

No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent.

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage.

Choose? When do I ever choose? Have I ever chosen?

If you choose to make an nonentity of yourself, do, but don't stick that label on me.

No one does anything to me, I do it to myself.

If you choose to make a nonentity of yourself, do, but don't stick that label on me.

I am not here to make anyone happy. What I am here for is to claim my life, my mama's death, our losses and our triumphs, to name them for myself.

You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul.

It won't help you," said Scott. "Nothing ever does. That's why I help myself so frequently.

One escapes; but one always has to come back. I found too I disliked not being in command of myself.

It was of no importance. Birth did not matter; heredity was merely a hurdle; one was what one made of oneself; that and no other.

Your right to die? They accept that already. It is I," said Sybilla, "who do not.

Allowed?' said Marthe. 'I have finished with asking permission for what I do and what I think. I have finished with being dispatched scurrying from errand to errand. I am my own mistress now. I am going to move the pieces. I am going to direct the end of the game.

All your life you have resented control and brooked no hint of instruction or guidance. This time, your will is not paramount.