Quotes About Autonomy

Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom.

Don't nobody have to die if they don't want to. - Pilate

Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with the others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom.

Every nigger I know wants to be cool. There's nothing wrong with controlling yourself, but can't can't nobody control other people.

Autonomy, newness, difference, authority, absolute power: these are the major themes and concerns of American literature, and each one is made possible, shaped, and activated by a complex awareness and use of a constituted Africanism that, deployed as rawness and savagery, provided the staging ground and arena for the elaboration of that quintessential American identity.

I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

Either I am to live in this world on my terms or I will die out of it.

What good is a man's life if he can't even choose what to die for?

I only know that I will never again trust my life, my future, to the whims of men, in companies or out. Never again will their judgment have anything to do with what I think I can do.

Rilke's admonition: love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish. As

they were increasingly perceived as restrictions upon the self-expression and freedom of the individual.

Looking back, it is striking to note how many in western Europe and the United States expressed enthusiasm for Mao Tse-tung's dictatorially uniform 'cultural revolution' while defining cultural reform at home as the maximizing of private initiative and autonomy.

restriction upon autonomy and initiative.

Contrary to a widespread assumption that has crept back into Anglo-American political jargon, few derive pleasure from handouts:

The idea that it was the state's business to know what was good for people—while we accept it uncomplainingly in school curriculums and hospital practices—smacked of eugenics and perhaps euthanasia.

And few can deny that welfarism, taken to extremes, carries a whiff of do as you're told!: there were moments in postwar Scandinavia when the enthusiasm for eugenics and social efficiency suggested not just a certain insensitivity to recent history but also to the natural human desire for autonomy and independence.

But I knew there was something better: there was an outside – an outside of me.

I will never draw my sword for another man again, or be dangled by another mans dream. From now on, I will fight my own battles. -Guts, Berserk

I don't want what another man can give me. If he grants me anything, then it's his to give and not my own." – Guts

It's your life. Do what you want with it.