Quotes About Autonomy

No one has the right to lead other people like sheep. That's something even Lenin failed to understand. The purpose of a revolution is to free people. But Lenin just said: "In the past you were led badly, I'm going to lead you well.

Allí donde no hay libertad humana no puede haber libertad nacional, ya que la libertad nacional es sobre todo libertad del hombre.

Segundo o seu amigo Semion Lípkin, Grossman teria adotado como norma de vida, nesta época, a frase de Tchékhov segundo a qual «era tempo, para cada um de nós, de nos livrarmos do escravo que trazemos cá dentro». Tentou então publicar o seu Vida e Destino, e foi o que se viu.

Avoid checking up on whether someone did something the previous day. Team members will start feeling like they are being micromanaged. In general, looking forward is great management; looking backward is micromanagement.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.

I don't want your money, said she.

Thou art free!

He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.

We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

Nina, you should never sing in front of people if they cannot leave.

protected her as best we could. She refused to

We each survive our own way.

Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.

most of all, she'd learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn't be counted on.

It was a terrible idea to live a life dictated by someone else's prejudices.

every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.

child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.

Do your own thing" has a lot in common with "Every man for himself." If it feels good, do it: for some that will mean smoking weed and watching porn—and for others, opposing modest gun regulation and paying yourself four hundred times what you pay your employees.

You can't fire me because I quit.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.