Quotes About Autonomy

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Being alone is simple. I like the freedom of knowing that I don't have anyone to rely on and no one's relying on me. There's a clarity to it that you can't get anywhere else.

Nothing will happen that you don't want to happen. Remember, all you have to do is say no.

I don't want to confine you, I don't want to control you. I want to set you free.

Freedom and ability can be seen to be somewhat synonymous.

Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

I am the only one who can decide what will happen to me," Kaitlyn went on very quietly. "No one else. Me. And I've already made my decision. I'm going back to that place and I'm going to try to stop them any way I can. Whether you give me the shard or not is your decision, but I'm going back anyway.

And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out... and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

I am my only master

I am as strong as I need to be. I am my only master.

I like being on my own.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me.

Let those who want to hatch hatch their own eggs. ----Martinique proverb

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

Karou wasn't a prize to win; that wasn't why he was here. She was a woman and would choose her own life. He was here to do what he could, whatever he could, that she might have a life to choose, one day. Whoever and whatever that included was her own affair.

Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?

Many a choice is made this way: By pretending it makes itself.

Just because the power is mine, it doesn't follow that all the choices are.

Ves lo que pasa cuando titubeas? Que otros toman las decisiones por ti.