Quotes About Autonomy

We don't miss you as you might think. You see, we have made it without you and will always. Take care, and don't ever return to Maasailand.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

It is certain that a man who has no need of anyone has many friends: in my own experience I have found this to be very true.

This reactive approach to relationships is inherently individualistic.

The story of my life. Everyone always thinks they know what's best for me. When do I get to decide?

Dr. Seuss once said, "You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own and you know. And you're the one who'll decide where to go."9

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

No man can be trapped without his consent.

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another?s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.

What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.

Life is conceived as a vast supermarket through which one moves with one's shopping trolley, fetching down ways of life from shelves marked "Existential choices.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

You must do it alone.

The only thumbnail you'll get from me is this: no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.