Quotes About Autonomy

If you want to rule your life with obligations to other people, that's you.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves.

Strive for independence. And know you're part of everything.

Teach a man to fish and he will eat forever. Give a man a fish and he will expect free tartar sauce.

The most important thing of value that money can buy is freedom.

We begin life on a linear path where success is based on clear targets. Life gets complicated when the targets aren't clear, and you have to set your own. By rubbing up against the world, you get to know yourself. Either do that, or you're going to spend your life serving the interests and expectations of others.

Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life.

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?

If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships — and you must talk about that openly, candidly.

Culture gives opportunity. It does not take away the free will of the individual. That would be a violation of God's design.

I'm so glad that she lived her life not the way I wanted her to, but rather in the way she believed she should.

Rebelling against the wishes and hopes of your parents is how a great many of us define who we are. It may be hard, and it may be painful, and some people may never manage it. And some never need to, because their parents were wise and gentle enough to help them down a congenial path.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Far too many people in America today are forced to have others feed them because they simply don't know how to feed themselves.

There are not many who do leave on their own terms. I certainly didn't.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I don't think I am someone who sits on someone else's coat tails while others do worthwhile work.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

We've heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes - and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

I would never want Ukraine to be a piece on the map, on the chessboard of big global players, so that someone could toss us around, use us as cover, as part of some bargain.