Quotes About Autonomy

If I didn't define who I was and what I wanted, then someone else would.

a woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle

Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom. LATIN PROVERB

todo gobierno se degenera cuando se deja solos a los gobernantes, porque éstos -por el mero hecho de gobernar- hacen mal uso de la confianza pública.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

The real truth, that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one.

Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other peoples' convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well-treated by culture.

You don't go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

You either have a plan or you become part of somebody else's plan.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

if you wanted something done, it was never a good idea to rely on others. Others were never as committed to achieving your goals as you were.

The best defense was your own, and you should never rely on chance or other people.

But the ragpicker had learned long ago that if you wanted something done, it was never a good idea to rely on others. Others were never as committed to achieving your goals as you were.

Your home is wherever you make it. Your people are whomever you wish them to be. But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.

Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

My past is my story to keep, and my future will be written by me, in my own way, not through the control or influence of you or anyone else.

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

your own individual life is the value and its own end, and what you achieve is yours. "Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

You are not struggling to rule, but to give others a chance at ruling their own lives. So stop ruling and let them live those lives.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life with you