Quotes About Autonomy

Calla. Callo. Sigo a lo mío y él sigue a lo suyo. Así da gusto compartir planeta.

The company becomes full of rigid controls, checks, and procedures that attempt to force people to act responsibly, but which actually create further walls between people and bring effective action to a grinding halt.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

I wish they'd stop thinking that I wanted any extra man," she said, and the cat arched ever so slightly and slept on.

I with they'd stop thinking that I wanted any extra man", she said, and the cat arched ever so slightly and slept on.

Nothingness is the stuff of thought. Beings, autonomous voices, memories dredged up, following the lapping of the water. Nothingness is not empty.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them.

When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Unitarian Universalists are neither a chosen people nor a people whose choices are made for them by theological authorities - ancient or otherwise. We are a people who choose.

Be sure to use the bathroom before we leave." Each of these messages tells children they are not capable of thinking for themselves, that they cannot take control of their life and make decisions. Interestingly, such messages often come from parents who moan and groan about their kids' lack of responsibility and ability to think for themselves.

They need only to give up the idea of forcing us to acquiesce to their groups and series, their socialized projects, their free- credit banks, their Graeco-Roman concept of morality, and their commercial regulations. I ask only that we be permitted to decide upon these plans for ourselves; that we not be forced to accept them, directly or indirectly, if we find them to be contrary to our best interests or repugnant to our consciences.

What is freedom? It is the sum total of freedoms. To be free, under one's own responsibility, to think and act, to speak and write, to work and trade, to teach and learn, that alone is to be free.

at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty. And

The academy is, perhaps unsurprisingly, full of people who think that they are smart enough to run the lives of others. They are not. Hence the subtitle of this volume: "What Your Professors Won't Tell You.

Be pleased, gentlemen, to dispose of what belongs to yourselves as you think proper, but leave us the disposal of the fruit of our own toil, to use it or exchange it as we see best. Declaim on self-sacrifice as much as you choose, it is all very fine and very beautiful, but be at least consistent.

Be responsible for ourselves. Look to the State for nothing beyond law and order. Count on it for no wealth, no enlightenment. No more holding it responsible for our faults, our negligence, our improvidence. Count only on ourselves for our subsistence, our physical, intellectual, and moral progress!

Refuse to be a slave of anything on earth.

Bài h?c: khi không ai trao cho b?n cái vai b?n x?ng ?áng nh?n ???c thì b?n nên t? mình vi?t nó ra.

para saber lo que hay que hacer, pregúntate, a propósito de la acción que te propones: «¿Podría hacerla otra persona en mi lugar?». Si la respuesta es sí, abandónala, a menos que sea absolutamente indispensable.

Do what thou wilt.

All theatre is political -- just as all other activities of human beings are political -- because theatre is not autonomous and must thus decide whose interests it serves.