Quotes About Autonomy

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.