Quotes About Autonomy

I am very lucky that Julen Lopetegui gives me total freedom to move where I like.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state beneath.

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

Our best theories of people, presented on their own terms and without reference to underlying particles and forces, leave plenty of room for human choice.

Doesn't matter if you run a barbershop, pharmacy, or gas station, remaining independent in today's America is an uphill slog and the hill gets steeper with each passing year.

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social. Otherwise you'll end up being devoured.

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. ELAINE MAXWELL

As humans, our tendency is to play victim. And unless you're watchful, it will sneak up on you and you'll start blaming outside forces—parents, spouses, bosses, the weather, the government, circumstances, "the Man," whomever—for your problems. In reality, we are not victims. We're agents. We are the creative forces of our lives, and we are free to choose. But we have to be reminded of this all the time.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

I have everything under control. It's time you realized it and let me be who I am.

Light, dark," Shaak Ti had said. "They are just directions. Do not be fooled that you stand on anything other than your own two feet.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

We always blame others. Or we blame the circumstances. But in reality there is only one person who can finish us off. Only one person has the power to completely destroy us, if we let them. And that is ourselves

He is most powerful who has power over himself

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

This is the reason we cannot complain of life; it keeps no one against his wll.