Quotes About Autonomy

I don't need a man in my life.

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!