Quotes About Autonomy

you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.

I know that you see the world with different eyes, with your eyes. You create an entire picture or movie in your mind, and in that picture you are the director, you are the producer, you are the main actor or actress. Everyone else is a secondary actor or actress. It is your movie.

Al ver lo apegados que estamos a una creencia o idea en concreto, recuperamos algo muy importante: la capacidad de elegir, de decir sí o no una y otra vez.

We have learned to live our lives trying to satisfy other people's demands.

Imagine when we teach our children to be secure in themselves, and to have their own voice. Imagine how everything will change if we bring respect to any relationship.

Tu verdad no es la verdad de nadie más y eso incluye a tus propios hijos o a tus propios padres.

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind;

Eres tú el que controla el conocimiento o es el conocimiento el que te controla a ti?»

The domestication is so strong that at a certain point in our lives we no longer need anyone to domesticate us. We don't need Mom or Dad, the school or the church to domesticate us. We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator.

ten-thirty in the morning, being free

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

this is a Free Planet.

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never—and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself. They will make the offer and they will give of their own accord

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people.

he tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could move in with a suitcase

Las personas deberían recibir su veneno el día de su mayoría de edad. Debería entregárseles en una ceremonia solemne. No para inducirlas al suicidio. Al contrario, para que vivan con más tranquilidad y más seguridad. Para que vivan con la conciencia de que son dueñas de su vida y de su muerte.

Stjecanje kontrole nad ženskim razmišljanjem ima, naime, svoja strogo odre?ena pravila; onaj tko odlu?i ženu nagovarati, uvjeravati je razumnim argumentima i sli?no teško da ?e nešto posti?i. Kudikamo je pametnije odrediti osnovnu autostilizaciju žene (osnovne principe kojima se rukovodi, ideale, uvjerenja) i nastojati da se (pomo?u sofizma, alogi?ne demagogije itd.) željena odluka žene dovede u sklad s tom autostilizacijom.

I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions.

Pa što ako nam se ne svi?a podignuti prst, dovoljno je da mu okrenemo le?a. Tako sam i u?inio i krenuo iz dvorišta ponovno na ulicu.

Todo depende de que el hombre sea tal como es, de que no se avergüence de querer lo que quiere y de desear lo que desea. La gente suele ser esclava de las ordenanzas. Alguien les ha dicho que deben ser de tal o cual manera y ellos tratan de ser así y jamás llegan a saber quiénes eran y quiénes son. Al final ya no son nadie ni nada. El hombre debe tener ante todo el valor de ser él mismo.