Quotes About Autonomy

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

The forests have taught man liberty.

I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' – see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

Men are not potatoes!

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.