Quotes About Autonomy

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." —THOMAS JEFFERSON

This brings home the saying and mantra for the future—"Nothing about me without me"—which should and will undeniably apply to individuals when they assume the role of IAPs.38

Omul nu este nevoit sa fie partas la greselile epocii in care traieste

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Man's main task is to give birth to himself.

The one thing she seems to aim at is Individuality; yet she cares nothing for individuals.8

the group and group-consciousness were dominant…[the individual] was not an autonomous, individualized entity with a knowledge, morality, volition, and activity of its own; it functioned solely as a part of the group, and the group with its superordinate power was the only real subject.

The formation and consolidation of the conscious system and its struggle for autonomy and self-preservation are just as important a factor in the history of psychic development as the relativizing of this autonomy through the constant tension between conscious and unconscious.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Sandgorse chose his own destiny. Why should he get to choose yours, too?

but we do not interfere. If we did, would you truly be free?

This is your decision, Fireheart. No cat can make it for you.

I'm tired of being your scratching post," he growled. "From now on, sharpen your claws on someone else." - Bumblestripe

Entre menos dependa nuestra felicidad de los demás, más fácil nos resulta ser felices.

Having other people try to fix you is one of the things that paradoxically holds you back from reaching that magical place called "After

What children need is to develop the skills to navigate the environment for themselves.

Force-feeding is a crime of passion, driven by a parent's desire to see a child eat; as with other crimes of passion, the perpetrator has lost sight of the loved one's autonomy.

The true objective is independence: for a child to reach the point where they can regulate their own intake of food and to choose the things that will do them good while giving them pleasure. Weaning them off milk is one thing. But the real task for a parent is to wean children off needing you.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices