Quotes About Autonomy

My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.

No human being should learn from another. Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost, not try to imitate those of someone else. I do not wish you to be a second and inferior Poirot. I wish you to be the supreme Hastings. And you are the supreme Hastings. In you, Hastings, I find the normal mind almost perfectly illustrated.

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.

Every one's got their own ways of working. I know that. I give my inspectors a free hand always. Every one's got to find out for themselves what method suits them best.

I help those who can help themselves.

I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself.

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.

I refuse to have my character improved.

Ser Justase, nekad je dovoljno da date ?oveku dovoljno konopca i pustite ga da se sam obesi.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them.

Don't be his story. Don't be anyone else's story. Be your own story. Protect yourself.

The only thing worse for a woman than making herself dependent on a man—'" Nell finishes her sentence: "'—is to have a child dependent on her.

I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.

Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!

Para una dictadura moderna, toda organización que sea independiente ya es política.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

She finally managed to free her fingers from his. "I know how to run without you holding my hand!

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

No one has a gun to your head. You are the primary agenda-setter in your life.

Nobody has the right to tell you what books you can and can't read except your parents.

Every person should be free to read whatever they want, whenever they want, and not have to explain to anyone else why we like it, or why we think it's valuable. I hope you all get a chance to read my books someday.

The independence of a nation springs from the independent spirit of its citizens