Quotes About Autonomy

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Why bother looking up the solution online? Why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you?

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

A basic theme for the anarch is how man, left to his own devices, can defy superior forces – whether state, society, or the elements – by making use of their rules without submitting to them. 'It is strange,' Sir William Parry wrote when describing the igloos on Winter Island, 'it is strange to think that all these measure are taken against the cold – and in houses of ice.

The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.

The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to introduce themselves. And as for the rats - that is a chapter unto itself.

The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again. During such recesses, the anarch measures his own strength and autonomy.

O bien poseer un destino propio o bien equivaler a un número: ésa es la disyuntiva que hoy nos viene impuesta -ciertamente por la fuerza- a todos y cada uno de nosotros, pero el inclinarse por lo uno o por lo otro es algo que corresponde decidir a cada uno por sí mismo

Each individual must know if freedom is more important to them—know whether they value how they are more than that they are.14

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

Unico modo per arrivare alla scoperta del meglio è la libertà, libertà di aggruppamento, libertà di esperimento, libertà completa senz'altro limite sociale che quello dell'uguale libertà degli altri.

La libertà che vogliamo noi non è il diritto astratto di fare il proprio volere, ma il potere di farlo; quindi suppone in ciascuno i mezzi di poter vivere ed agire senza sottoporsi alla volontà altrui.

L'uomo non è perfetto, d'accordo. Ma questo non è che una ragione di più, forse la ragione migliore, per non dare a nessuno i mezzi per «mettere i freni alla libertà individuale».

Il farsi mettere il freno nella speranza di essere meglio guidati non può condurre che alla schiavitù.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

You are the creator of your own experience, and no one else has power within your experience. And that is true for everyone.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

No one is more qualified than you to set the standards for you.

And it is nice to know that it matters not what others are choosing, or what others are even thinking about what I am choosing. What is important is that I am pleased with me, and as I see myself, I certainly am.