Quotes About Autonomy

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

You know, it is very simple to be a genius. All you have to do is think for yourself.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

How naive she must be to think that life is so safe and predictable that you can survive without some level of independence and autonomy.

HAVING ONE'S OWN shop, working on projects of one's own choosing, making enough money today so one could do the same tomorrow: These were the modest goals of Thomas Edison when he struck out on his own as full-time inventor and manufacturer. The grand goal was nothing other than enjoying the autonomy of entrepreneur and forestalling a return to the servitude of employee.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

I have no choice but to believe in free will" Tomlinson

Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is rare for a human being to have free will. . . . (140)

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I believe that if you hire a man to do a job, you ought to get out of the way and let him do it.

I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

the thing that "makes us human. We have minds. We make our own choices and live by them. We shape our own lives with how we behave towards others.

The discovery that some actions are not as freely chosen as we may have thought does not take us to the conclusion that no action is freely chosen. Degrees of freedom imply freedom.

Never count on anybody for too much.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

I don't agree with any form of butler, so definitely not a robot one. It's lazy, so a bad idea.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

Cambodia is not going to be bought by anyone.