Quotes About Autonomy

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

A man is either free or he is not.

Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.