Quotes About Autonomy

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.