Quotes About Autonomy

for the Capitol as a whole, being a 'real human being' lies precisely in freedom from the constraints of identity

No one can make you fail. If you fail, it--it's because YOU failed.

Fitz treated Jerry like an adult, Jerry always got his work done, and Fitz never had to worry about Jerry being at his desk, because Jerry didn't need a babysitter.

To be clear, she always admired hard workers: she just didn't see the point of laboring to benefit someone else. "If you're going to work hard," she used to say, "you might as well work hard for yourself.

My mother's message to black and white folks alike was clear: It's nobody's business what I do for my children, nor how I manage to do it.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

I don't think you need a man in this world anymore; I think you just need yourself and a little love and a bath.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

It is better that we make our own history than be governed by the dead--William O. Douglas

She was not someone's sister, she was not someone's child. She was Dolores and Dolores was the good guys.

When you've been groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no.

make my decisions based on what I intended, not just on what someone else wanted me to do or what I thought would please them.

groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no.

I have established a very good rule, which I pass on to you: Never do anything just because other people do it.

The A is agency—autonomy, freedom, creativity, mastery; the belief that you can impact the world around you. The B is belonging—relationships, community, friends, family; the people that surround and nurture you. The C is cause—a calling, a mission, a direction, a purpose; a transcendent commitment beyond yourself that makes your life worthwhile.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Having one's own will. — What does self-willed mean? Hell, isn't it knowing above all, that, indeed, one is the captain of one's soul, the master of one's life? Now what causes such realization and, consequently, brings about a change in one's behavior? TO BE REAL, TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONESELF.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. It is about choice, and having the power to control how you present yourself to the world.

Privacy is not a luxury that we can only afford in times of safety. Instead, it's a value to be preserved. It's essential for liberty, autonomy, and human dignity. We must understand that privacy is not something to be traded away in some fearful attempt to guarantee security, but something to maintain and protect in order to have real security. None of this will happen without a change of attitude. In the end, we'll get the privacy we as a society demand and not a bit more.

The Zaibatsu recognizes one civil right: the right to death.

Far from regarding mankind as autonomous, Schaeffer believed that his books stressed "that people have no final answers in regard to truth, morals or epistemology without God's revelation in the Bible.

Placing himself, rather than God, at the center of the universe and making himself autonomous, man will give up his rationality so he can preserve his rationalism, his autonomy, and his rebellion against God.36

The danger of freedom is real, but enforced safety reeks of a much more odious danger.