Quotes About Autonomy

I think it's great that you think about…your mother, quincies, the future, all kinds of things before you act. I respect that about you. But…I'm not like you. For me, 'taking care of myself' means doing what I can, when I can.

walked everywhere. He hated getting rides.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.

Don't bother setting up free republics or moving to a country which offers more liberties. Simply declare yourself to be an independent state. Do not involve and coerce others. This is the only way we will effect a proper revolution. Once each of us recognizes our own freedom and our own responsibility, then the chains that bind us will fall away.

But we are moaning about the very lives that we have created for ourselves...We were free to go and retire alone in Goa and live on the beach for the rest of our lives, childless and free. But we chose not to do that. And then we complained.

Paul reached out his hand to help Sophie to her feet; she ignored him (she didn't hold with patronising gender-stereotypical conventions) and wobbled for a moment before her legs remembered how to cope with her weight.

I also knew that no one had told then to stay late--they were doing so of their own volition. This type of diligence and drive is not atypical in filmmaking--it's actually commonplace.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.

true freedom was an internal condition not subject to the vagaries of politics. Freedom could not be owned. Therefore, it could not be appropriated.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

It's more important to be free than to be happy.

There's just one thing in this life that's better than happiness and that's freedom. It's more important to be free than to be happy.

For you, freedom means leave me alone. For the masses, it means give me a break.

If you act only on what you should do without heed for what you want to do, you're nothing more than a machine, a phenomenon.

I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery

He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-' 'I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own.

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you.' 'I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.