Quotes About Autonomy

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Great men can't be ruled.

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

Every man for himself.