Quotes About Autonomy

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

I started to understand how important it was for me to make my own name pretty early on after years of noticing people treating me a certain way because of who my dad was. Some people wanted to be friends, others wanted to test me because I was Chris Eubank's son - inside schools, outside of school, on the streets.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.

Collectively, we must find points of leverage in order to convince China to improve their treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans, and other minority groups, to ensure the autonomy of Hong Kong, and to continue to protect democracy in Taiwan, among other issues.

Feminists are like the Borg from 'Star Trek.' They don't know anything about other groups beyond the fact that they need to be assimilated into a hivemind that mindlessly follows the orders of a Queen.

My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office.

There's something to be said for being given a tremendous amount of freedom as an actor.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!

I don't follow trends, so I make my own.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather information, come to our own conclusions, and sometimes depart from the pack, sometimes move away from the tribe.

We have got to recognize the Mashpee tribe, their sovereignty, and their self-determination.

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

I am no one's to be claimed, I belong to me.

we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else's opinions if we know who we are

It is difficult to stop people from thinking on their own and exceedingly so, to get them to think on their own.

?Who gets to Live? You or Your Rules?

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

Be confident. Don't seek permission to be yourself.

Define yourself before someone does it for you.