Quotes About Autonomy

Minute by minute, you decide who you are and who you're likely to be. You make the choices hour by hour, just in the present. I don't believe there's some roadmap laid out that we're headed towards.

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time...

Bir insana, hiç kimseyle olmad???m?z gibi baÄŸl? olmak için, yan yana olmam?z gerekmez.

Slavery allows its victims no decision-making power over any aspect of their lives, including the decision to live. The lone exception, the only power they have, is that they may choose to die.

The main point that nullification addresses is that a government allowed to determine the scope of its own powers cannot remain limited for long.

Parents can modify themselves, and reduce the number of behaviors that are unacceptable to them, by coming to see that their children are not their children, not extensions of themselves, but separate, unique. A child has the right to become what he is capable of becoming, no matter how different from the parent or the parent's blueprint for the child. This is his inalienable right.

You have created a life, now let the child have it. Let him decide what he wants to do with the life you gave him

An accepting parent is willing to let a child develop his own "program" for life; a less accepting parent feels a need to program the child's life for him.

UPS are replacing fixed daily routes with dynamic ones adjusted in real time for weather and traffic—again with machine learning. Only cognitive technologies can handle all the necessary data. And at some point supply chains may be powered by autonomously driven trucks, which will bring enormous changes to that domain.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. But since a woman can't show off in that way by herself, I shan't marry—at least not yet.

I can't bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!

Gabriel Oak: It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

It is never too late to break off a marriage that's distasteful to you. 

Hang it, I am not going to feel responsible for my deeds and passions if there's nobody to be responsible to; and if I were you, my dear, I wouldn't either.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

Bathsheba había alcanzado ese punto en el que la gente deja de preocuparse por lo que los demás puedan pensar.

THEIR ADULT CHILDREN ARE ECONOMICALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself