Quotes About Autonomy

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life.

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.