Quotes About Autonomy

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Because you could not master whatever enmeshed you you became its slave - You learned this bitterly, early. In order not to become its slave you had to become its master. You became its master. Even as master, of course, you remain its slave.

Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

it myself!" These are the words that I would hear from my grandson when, as a toddler, he would try to pour juice from a large container into a cup. Grownups aren't much different. It is a well-documented fact that no one of my gender will ever ask for directions. I'm not lost. I can find it myself.

always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Freedom is from within.

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

And heaven knows I took the blows and did it my way.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself then he has naught Not to say the things that he truly feels And not the words of someone who kneels Let the record show I took all the blows and did it my way.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

I'm not really the sacrificing type.

Such cases deserve attention since they show that apes do not have to be prompted by experimental conditions concocted by us humans to plan for the future. They do so of their own accord.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our control.

You are of all the dearest to me. But don't adopt your life to mine. Be strong enough that you no longer need me. Then we will belong to a shared freedom, then we will belong to each other

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Most of the time when we say 'freedom,' we mean 'do it my way or I'll shoot you.

Advise me, but do not force your opinion on me. I shall decide at my peril and risk; that is enough and for the law to interfere would be tyranny.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Every man paddle his own canoe.