Quotes About Autonomy

Freedom for the moment is everything

Readers are born free and ought to remain free.

I did not rush up to her room with cries. I always preferred the mental hygiene of noninterference.

Zij kon zich niet overgeven aan een plan dat ze niet zelf had gemaakt, aan een koers die een ander voor haar bepaalt.

We will become better learners and more independent thinkers.

Bartender, tell this man to vacate my person.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now.

I will never belong to anyone—I will die before I allow that to happen.

I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already.

Nora Dunn She rescued herself from the castle, by herself and with no knight in shining armor.

Libertarian is someone who says, 'you can be as liberal or conservative as you want to be, just don't force others to be like you.

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not.

I'm not a feather to be tossed about.

Question, witch-child. Question especially those who would define 'evil' for you.

My kid, her life. I want for her what she wants for herself.

Men come and go. The only thing a woman has that no one can take away is her opinion of herself.

Freedom, I am beginning to realize, means not even being aware you're free.

America is all about freedom of choice.

My feelings are my own responsibility. I don't see what trust has to do with it. I can't go around handing them off to other people.

May you realize your own freedom.