Quotes About Autonomy

I am tired of ruling over slaves.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Roseman also put it: "Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.

There is no ultimate arbiter of right or wrong. In the whole vast universe, there is nobody who knows what you should do in any given situation any better than you do — not your mom and dad, not your best friend Alice, not the president or the pope, and certainly not God.

To really know for absolute certain that you could never blame anyone else for anything is difficult.

Your value is whatever you want it to be.

If you let somebody take advantage of you, it gets worse, not better.

You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with complicated beliefs, who does not accept everything you are told. You decide how you are defined. Don't surrender that to them. They will gleefully take the chance to define you, if you allow it.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

I learned how much power over a situation you gain when you decide that you don't care what others think of you.