Quotes About Autonomy

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

Free government works well in proportion as government is superfluous.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers' syndicates

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as you own vision of yourself. Live and die with it, because in the end, that's all you have. Lose it and lose yourself and everything else.

Another convenience is the speed limit. There is none.

When my supply of success at this egotistic autonomy ran out, I became depressed. And with the depression, by means of grace, came a chance for spiritual openness. I

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.