Quotes About Autonomy

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

I don't need a job. I don't want an appointment. I don't want to be on a commission. I don't want to be ambassador to nowhere.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

I'm not in the business of holding people's hands after I've expressed to them my needs numerous times.

If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

I'm not under obligation to provide information to everyone that wants it when they want it.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

You will do things in private and sing in private and make choices in private that you wouldn't make if you were observed.

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.

Nobody is ever really free, Gary. As long as you live with another human being, you're not free.

competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny Ã¢â'¬Â¦

No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!

When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of use and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose.