Quotes About Autonomy

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Every man's actions belong to him.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.