Quotes About Autonomy

We all live in a very tranquil, sanitised world where you're told to do everything, and when you travel, it's very liberating not to be in that crazy, nannied state.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

I've been so transient, I've been on my own since I was 16. I didn't even have my own place until I was 32 years old. I literally lived out of bags for 16-plus years.

In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.

Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations.

There's certain guys who dictate or change the way they play based off who they're playing, and that still may translate to success for them, but the way that I play is, like I say, I'm in the driver's seat.

Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

Nouns are seldom improved by the modifier 'public.' Few of us, given a private alternative, prefer public restrooms or public transportation or public displays of affection.

We don't want you to answer all of our silly questions, Hank. We don't want you to solve all our problems. We're not broken, and you don't have to fix us. Okay?

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Only when there is no privacy can there be total control

To each is own

to find yourself, think for yourself

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

No one wishes to be "rescued" with someone else's beliefs.

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be.

He's used to the freedom of neglect; he likes it.

Just because you want to join the party does not mean you are required to stay until the last drunk passes out.

Als je eenmaal hebt geaccepteerd dat niemand je ooit zal begrijpen en je hebt dat overweldigende gevoel van eenzaamheid overwonnen, dan heeft het wel iets prettigs, eerlijk gezegd. Jij bent de enige deskundige in je eigen kleine wereldje, en je kunt doen waar je zin in hebt.

Perhaps the truth is that I don't want to get my happiness-mystery solution from Aristotle, Schopenhauer or Katherine. I want to find it myself. I don't want to be helped or saved by a Poirot equivalent. I want to be the Poirot in my own life.

Fine. If you want to stay in that chair and feel sorry for yourself for the rest of your life, who am I to stop you? But if the solitude you're so desperately clinging to ever starts to get too dull and lonely, just let me know.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law