Quotes About Autonomy

Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

A qué le llamas libertad? –A no pedir nada. A no esperar nada. A no depender de nada. –¿Y si encontraras algo que quisieras? –No lo encontraré. Elegiré no verlo.

I don't propose to force or be forced. Those who want me will come to me.

La più piccola minoranza al mondo è l'individuo. Chiunque neghi i diritti dell'individuo non può sostenere di essere un difensore delle minoranze.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

No tienes que depender de los bienes materiales, son ellos los que dependen de ti.

Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." "But I don't think of you." Toohey

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence - by his own choice.

Dotados de juicio para actuar, no se nos admitirá un acto de propia elección. Trabajaremos bajo disposiciones y controles promulgados por quienes son incapaces de producir nada.

Can you rule a thinking man? We don't want any thinking men.

Usted no quiere que piense. Cuando fuerza a un hombre a actuar contra su placer y a su juicio, es su pensamiento el que desea suprimir. Anhela convertirlo en un robot. Pues bien, obraré de acuerdo con esto.

Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't—doesn't live at all.

his convictions to the wishes of others, be it the whole

To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.--Dominique Francon

Your ego is the strictest judge. -Howard Roark in his speech at his trial.

The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

You don't understand their mentality. They won't accept your resignation because they don't think you have the right to quit. They are the ones who decide how long you should stay and when you should be dispensed with. More than anything else, it was this arbitrariness that had become unbearable.

readers were born free and ought to remain free.

She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and never allows them the space to become themselves.

The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique quality which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

To be a victim is to abdicate responsibility, to in effect give up most of all on yourself.

Only if I take my own life can I act without my husband's permission, she said, desperately and dramatically.

standing there in our black robes and scarves, we are as we had been shaped by someone else's dreams. In the second, we appear as we imagined ourselves. In neither could we feel completely at home.

No one is pro-abortion.