Quotes About Autonomy

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor."

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte, c'est etre seul).

You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go ... and you can change the road you're on at any time.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Buffet: A French word that means "get up and get it yourself."

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.

The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself- and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

Include me out.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.