Quotes About Autonomy

When you give the credit or the blame to another for your success or lack of it—you are powerless to make any change.

It's not enough to be born free; I have to live my freedom!

If I don't ask for your opinion, I don't want it.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

to live the life of a free man.

If there's one thing in the world more annoying than being dependent on someone, it's when that someone constantly reminds you that you are dependent on him.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

I am busy because I am lazy. I indolently let others decide what I will do instead of resolutely deciding myself. It was a favorite theme of C. S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us.

I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.

For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.

Perhaps I will tell them that your race is like your name—it is a given, and you must define your own name so that it does not define you.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

People make their own worlds.

but what I am not interested in, Ms. Clipboard- or Mr. Canker or Mrs. Murmur or Call-me-Carol, all of you- is your questions; even your pointing and tipping Enoch pencils have six sides, my dear definers: pay heed whereon you pinch!; I am interested, almost exclusively, in being interested, and your reductivist probings are only intended to cordon off wings of my mansion;

Let those who want to, arrive Let those who want to, leave Let those who want to, stay With out harm to me or mine

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

I believe a journalist needs to be free to ask the questions he or she deems relevant, without constraints from others.

It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.

All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.

The independence of content creation without fearing what's going to be censored has relieved a lot of filmmakers in India.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.