Quotes About Autonomy

One of the dangers of "self-determination" is that there is really no such thing as a "nation" in the sense of an ethnocultural group that coincides with a patch of real estate. Unlike features of a landscape like trees and mountains, people have feet.

authority, and purity entails a reduction of violence. And that retraction is precisely the agenda of classical liberalism: a freedom of individuals from tribal and authoritarian force, and a tolerance of personal choices as long as they do not infringe on the autonomy and well-being of others.

A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Hobbes believed that people could escape this hellish existence only by surrendering their autonomy to a sovereign person or assembly. He called it a leviathan, the Hebrew word for a monstrous sea creature subdued by Yahweh at the dawn of creation. Much depends on which of these armchair anthropologists is correct.

Culture is an autonomous entity that carries out a desire to perpetuate itself by setting up expectations and assigning roles, which can vary arbitrarily from society to society.

Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

You should never, ever, let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You have a choice whether to meet others expectations of you, or strive to meet your own.

It is not your business to love me. It is mine.

The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have to support.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Love yourself before any other person. That's when you can really survive on your own.

I love liberty, I hate equality.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.