Quotes About Autonomy

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

themselves and their own

The Way of Self-Reliance starts with recognizing who we are, what we've got to work with, and what works best for us.

We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking at the door. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

If the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

I do what I want.

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology.

What we did say is that it is up to the Syrians themselves to decide how to run the country, how to introduce the reforms, what kind reforms, without any outside interference.

If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

No one shrieked, 'We want Bung Hatta.' I did not need him. Just as also I did not need Sjahrir, who refused to show himself at the time of the reading of the Proclamation. Indeed, I could do it myself, and indeed, I did it alone.

I've always refused to associate myself with a brand.

I refused to let my parents take my hat off when I went to bed.

I refuse some movies. I cannot always give reasons why I refuse. Sometimes, I refuse just because I feel like refusing! I always look at my role, and never bother about who the hero will be when choosing a movie.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

If you have a point of view regarding my style of work, keep it to yourself. You are not entitled to express your opinion.

I turn to my parents for support, but their lives and careers are different and mine is different, so I don't consult them regarding my career. I make my own choices.

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.