Quotes About Autonomy

My condition determines my conditions, my conditions don't determine my condition.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

En helaas hebben huwelijken in het algemeen iets lomps. Ze bederven de tederste verhoudingen, en dat komt toch eigenlijk alleen door de botte zekerheid waarvan ten minste één partij profiteert. Alles is vanzelfsprekend en men lijkt de verbintenis alleen gesloten te hebben opdat beiden hun eigen gang kunnen gaan.

Volk und Knecht und Ãœberwinder Sie gestehen, zu jeder Zeit, Hoechtes Glueck der Erdenkinder Sei nur die Personlichkeit.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Successful people do what they love, not what they are told to do.

The more inner power you gain the less outer control you allow.

You have a free will and there is always a choice. Your power resides in that moment of choice.

As much as we try, we do not control how we feel or what we think.

If you are in a position of power and want to lead well, remember: Allow those you lead... To lead... when they feel the need. All will benefit.

I found out very early that the more you want to hold people the more they want to be free.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.

Democ'acy gives every man The right to be his own oppressor...

...and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

How can you manage all alone, Mr. Young?" His large, almost girlish eyes rested on her for a moment before he replied, and then it was in the softest and gentlest of voices. "Oh, I get along pretty well with them. 

Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself.

Control your own destiny, or someone else will.

I could kill you in a dozen different ways without breaking a sweat. Do not think to dictate my comings and goings.