Quotes About Autonomy

Why would I need someone to make sure I do my job correctly?" answered the Japanese worker. "That's my job.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

Developing a consciousness culture has nothing to do with establishing a religion or a particular political agenda. On the contrary, a true consciousness culture will always be subversive, by encouraging individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.

It is the body that possesses itself: Owning something means to be able to control it, and selfhood is intimately related to the very moment in which the body discovers that it can control itself—as a whole. It is exactly what happens when you wake up in the morning, when you "come to yourself.

Without time management, you lose control of your life and do what other people tell you to do. You lose control and become a puppet that everyone can control and manipulate.

Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

That government is best which governs least.

Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Make government what it ought to be, and it will support itself.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free.

Mind thine own concerns.

it is repugnant to the principles of representative government that a body should give power to itself.

Propria mea minte este biserica mea.

I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man;

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he who feeds you, controls you

They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.