Quotes About Autonomy

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

A man must be himself or nothing!

No man is free who cannot control himself.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.