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Quotes About Autonomy

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.
~ Simone Elkeles
I want to live life on my own terms.
~ Simone Elkeles
I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.
~ Simone Elkeles
Guys are control freaks and hate when other people know what's best for them
~ Simone Elkeles
Man alone can enslave man.
~ Simone Weil
Never split yourself for someone else, people change.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.
~ Sir Edward Coke
Lord of himself, though not of lands;And having nothing, yet hath all.
~ Sir Henry Wotton
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
~ Sir Isaiah Berlin
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.
~ Sir Isaiah Berlin
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell, A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
See me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.
~ Sir Thomas More
A child's true independence is the product of a strong, reassuring parental presence, and it is that presence that we take with us when we walk out the door for good.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.
~ Leona Lewis
Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
~ Melody Beattie
First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
~ Mikhail Saakashvili
Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
~ Rajneesh
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
~ John Updike
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.
~ John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary
I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
~ Danielle Fishel