Quotes About Autonomy

Like, if you're gonna make a decision about me and my life for my own good without consulting me, I'd better be dying and unconscious, and you'd better be following carefully written instructions. ~Max

By taking control of my sexuality, I felt like I'd finally taken control of my life.

Exercise the right to think for yourself

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself

But I didn't need Prince Charming.

letting them know it's all right to do what they want. They don't have to resign themselves to some soul-destroying nine-to-five they hate.

But human freedom requires dignity: respect for oneself and for those around them.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

The unhappy people are those who listen to others. I never listened to anyone, and I'm very happy.

It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.

A lot of fighters want that freedom to have their own sponsorships. When you think about it, how do you make independent contractors wear a uniform? That just seems strange to me.

Bedales was perfect for my sister and me. Very open. Very few rules. No uniforms. Co-educational. And very little of 'You have to do this like this.' You very much controlled your education.

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept measures that, in a unilateral way, one government wants to impose on another. That we are not going to accept.

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

Every individual should have both the right to join a union and the right to not join a union should they so choose. It's about basic human freedom.

Whenever someone forces me to do something against my will, they're infringing upon my freedoms and my liberties. And that's what I think we're doing in Maine when we have fair share, which means that you are required to belong to a union, you're required to pay dues, but you don't want to participate.

My vision is to put this country and the British people first and for us to divorce ourselves from political union and re-engage with the rest of the world.

I am a unionist. But I'm a unionist up to the point of, if other people don't want to be in a union with me then, well, fine.

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!