Quotes About Autonomy

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.

The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

I don't want anybody holding doors for me. I don't want anyone to hold my umbrella.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.

People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.

Who are the governing bodies to say what is a good and a bad behaviour? I think that's unacceptable, even from an ethical point of view. I don't think anyone on this planet should be able to point at people and say this. For example, if it's not dangerous for other people, you should be allowed to break a racket. It's my racket, it's my problem.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.