Quotes About Autonomy

To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.

Shasana means rules someone else imposes on you. Anushasana means rules you impose on yourself.

I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.

The part I always loved about golf was that you could go out there by yourself and be totally responsible for what happened or didn't happen.

Anyhow, his basic philosophy was encapsulated in his famous statement, "I have an agreement with my people. They can say what they want. I can do what I want.

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

I hover over myself Watching. Mind and body separated, Each in control As though there are two puppeteers Working the strings of my marionette self.

We must "conserve the freedom of our soul and not mortgage it, except on those rare occasions when we deem it the right path".

To free oneself from fear and hope, belief and superstition. To be free of convictions and parties.

Only the man who remains free from all and everything augments and sustains freedom on this earth.

La prego, non si disturbi... l'unico diritto umano che alla fine ti resta è quello di crepare come credi... senza essere scocciato dall'aiuto altrui.

To be free of family and familiar surroundings.

Solo colui che riesce a mantenere la propria libertà rispetto a tutto e a tutti, conserva e moltiplica la libertà sulla terra.

He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.

She did not want to dominate, but, on the other hand, she would not allow herself to be dominated or even influenced by others.

How to escape the tyrannical demands that the state and Church seek to impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside?

How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my health, my thoughts, my feelings, from the danger of being sacrificed to the deranged prejudices of others, to serve interests which are not my own?

And although our time gave me the opportunity like anyone else, I never got my hands on the property or assets of another Frenchman. Only alone have I lived, whether in war or peace, and I have never demanded anything of someone without remunerating him justly. I have my law and my own courts of justice, and they pass sentence on me.

At eighty-five, she had paid the inevitable tribute to old age. Her sight was failing, she was growing deaf, she had lost all her teeth, she walked with difficulty. To so proud, so autocratic a woman what could seem more terrible than to expose her infirmities to hostile eyes?

Que a la larga no se puede defender la libertad de las masas, sino únicamente la propia, la libertad interior.

What Montaigne seeks is his interior self, that which cannot submit to state, to family, to time, to circumstances, to money, to property; this interior self, which Goethe labelled the "citadel", where all access is prohibited.

All at once John was strong enough to bear the impatience of others, and with that the game was at an end. He moved at his own pace. He gave orders the way a carpenter drives nails, each straight and deep until it held. He paused where he wanted to, and not where others interrupted him.

She could not give him power over her. She gave no man that. "I don't deal in bonds, sir," she called back over her shoulder as she fled for the stables. "They're too much like chains.