Quotes About Autonomy

Ain't no one gonna tell you what's in your heart, he tells Lev. You gotta find that out for yourself.

Un niño no aprende a caminar si siempre lo llevan en unos amorosos brazos. Y una especie no puede crecer si nunca se enfrenta a las consecuencias de sus acciones. Negarle a la humanidad la lección de las consecuencias sería un error.

It's out of my hands. Then put it back in your hands!

You still have your own mind,' she pointed out. 'That's got to be worth something.

Everyone just calls me Emby. Is that your choice, or theirs? asks the Admiral. Well...theirs, mostly-but I got used to it. Never let anyone else name you, says the Admiral.

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been.

We can't make you do anything," said one of the scythes she didn't know, a woman in violet with PanAsian leanings.

Freedom isn't freedom when you're addicted to it

They were to be the start of a slave army—for when you're a collection of parts, you're not a person. You're property.

There is a fine line between freedom and permission.

I have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do real work.

Life would be so much easier without people telling us what we're supposed to feel—what we're supposed to do. Life would be so much easier if everyone left us alone.

Habría que añadir dos derechos a la lista de derechos del hombre: El derecho al desorden y el derecho a marcharse.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

People don't do me much good.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

for me obedience to another is the decay of self

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

for me obedience to another is the decay of self. for though every being is similar each being is different and to herd our differences under one law degrades each self.

and beware those who only take instructions from their God for they have failed completely to live their own lives.

Não sou esnobe; eu simplesmente não estou interessado no que a maioria das pessoas tem pra dizer, ou no que elas desejam fazer - principalmente com o meu tempo

Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish.