Quotes About Autonomy

But I think on the whole I would rather be myself than you. I'm quite content to be myself; I don't want to change.

I don't care how I live, nor where I live, said Millicent, so long as I can do as I like.

I must live for myself at last, while there is still a handful left of me

She answered that she liked standing up and

Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?

Today I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity-I belong to the earth!

No particular reason for anything. I'm free - that's the main thing.

Maybe it doesn't make sense but it's my way. I can't navigate any other way

No particular reason for getting off here. No particular reason for anything. I'm free -- that's the main thing...

Buatlah keputusan, maka anda akan bebas.

if you happen to be a boss, you never want an employee to do exactly what you tell him to do. You want him to occasionally do what you don't tell him to do … often what you can't tell him to do, because many problems can't be anticipated.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.

I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected to serve, take care of, say 'Yes,' and not ruffle any feathers. Women, in particular, are sometimes not allowed to consider who they are outside of the roles that they play.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will.

I'm in control of myself. I take yes or no from no one.

I am not a 'yes' person. No matter who you are married to, you still need to lead your life.