Quotes About Autonomy

Mother Dark had turned away. She had left them to fates of their own devising, and in so doing, she had taken away their privilege of blaming someone else.

Some people just don't like being told what they can and can't do." "Some people use that line to rationalize being assholes

Around Karsa Orlong, I suspect, only Karsa Orlong has his way.

There were other things than love upon which to thrive." (MT, p140)

The key, I think, is to hold true to your own aesthetics, that which you value, and yield to no one the power to become the arbiter of your tastes.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They're allowed to think.

The more independent a person is, financially and physically, the less controlled he is by the cult.

all human beings have the right to protection from undue influence, a concept the law has recognized for at least five centuries.

the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Discipline must come through liberty…. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself.

To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author.

It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

El consuelo verdadero, puesto que solo existe para mí un consuelo verdadero, aquel que me dice que soy un hombre libre, un individuo inviolable, un ser soberano dentro de mis límites.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.

The ways of men have no power over us.

This hour belonged to Tamara alone.

Varencienne had become a true woman of Caradore, as was right and needful, but she was a spirited young woman. She liked to believe she had autonomy.

Pharinet, more than anyone he knew, craved freedom.

We should havest our sustenance, not beg for it!

I don't want you to want me, but only to want yourself. We won't know each other for long.

Her excitement at finally landing this choice morsel was concealed behind her urbane talk of investment. For over a year, she would have given two of her best operatives in exchange for Zambia Crevecoeur, but the boy had been so awkward, resisting all her proud, veiled offers of employment to suffer starvation in the name of autonomy.