Quotes About Autonomy

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.