Quotes About Autonomy

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"