Quotes About Autonomy

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do