Quotes About Autonomy

They rode in a narrow enfillade along a trail strewn with the dry round turds of goats and they rode with their faces averted from the rock wall and the bakeoven air which it rebated, the slant black shapes of the mounted men stenciled across the stone with a definition austere and implacable like shapes capable of violating their covenant with the flesh that authored them and continuing autonomous across the naked rock without reference to sun or man or god.

If I dont go will you go anyways? John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.

I'm not really concerned about what other people believe. I dont consider them qualified to have an opinion.

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am? I'd very little to do with it.

You're free white and twenty-one so I reckon you can do whatever you want.

They rode in a narrow enfilade along a trail strewn with the dry round turds of goats and they rode with their faces averted from the rock wall and the bakeoven air which it rebated, the slant black shapes of the mounted men stenciled across the stone with a definition austere and implacable like shapes capable of violating their covenant with the flesh that authored them and continuing autonomous across the naked rock without reference to sun or man or god.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

Keep the dogs off me!

They were here already, all of them: Dustfinger and Capricorn, Basra and Roxane, Minerva, Violante, the Adderhead...you merely wrote their story, but they didn't like it, and now they're writing it for themselves.

Don't have a mother," he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons. J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.

There's something really liberating about having some corner of your life that's yours, that no one gets to see except you. It's a little like nudity or taking a dump. Everyone gets naked every once in a while. Everyone has to squat on the toilet. There's nothing shameful, deviant or weird about either of them.

I'm not magic. You lead yourselves.

you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.

It's hard to pay your own way when you're used to someone else picking up the tab.

Freedom isn't something technology gives you, technology is something you use to get freedom.

Anarchism is the revolutionary idea that no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life will be.

Form your own autonomous group, answering to no power but your own, and chase down freedom for yourselves, if your representatives will not do if for you- since they cannot do it for you.

Who chooses what we know or what's important? I know I have to decide these things for myself.

And I didn't yet understand that just because you can recognize what another person wants and just because that person is older and more powerful than you are, you don't have to give it to them.

In the end, there was always your regular life, and no one could deal with it but you.

It's remarkable, isn't it, Mr. Bennet said, that for decades at a time, I've stayed alive without your daily instructions?

Dirò che, nel concetto dei toscani, chi non è un uomo libero è un uomo grullo.

As best she could, in her secluded position, she was considering how she might secure further choices, and what they might be — once this, her first free choice, had played itself out.