Quotes About Autonomy

Tenha em mente que: (1)alguém sempre pode escolher outra pessoa sem que isso se reflita em você; (2)quer você seja ou não escolhido por alguém importante, não é com isso que você deve medir seu valor. (...)Se essa pessoa preferir outro a você, tal escolha refletirá o outro e não você.

Instead of believing that you know what's best for others, trust that they know what's best for themselves.

And, dude, the truth is, if you're gonna be like this, I don't need the association.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We

Without the restraints of some higher moral law, democracy instinctively works against natural marriage, traditional families, and any other institution that creates bonds and duties among citizens. It insists on the autonomous individual as its ideal. In

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

Unilateralism simply means that one does not allow oneself to be held hostage to the will of others.

individuals, he believed, should choose and pursue what matters to them.

Education needs to work by pull, not push.

Well from now on, Linus think for yourself... Don't take any advice from anyone!

But there… that night… that moment, it was the first time I'd ever been cut free.

If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.

McCabe's Law Nobody has to do anything.

The city is not merely a repository of pleasures. It is the stage on which we fight our battles, where we act out the drama of our own lives. It can enhance or corrode our ability to cope with everyday challenges. It can steal our autonomy or give us the freedom to thrive. It can offer a navigable environment, or it can create a series of impossible gauntlets that wear us down daily. The messages encoded in architecture and systems can foster a sense of mastery or helplessness.

Self-acceptance, or how well you know and regard yourself Environmental mastery – your ability to navigate and thrive in the world Positive relations with others Personal growth throughout life Sense of meaning and purpose Feelings of autonomy and independence

That's the UBI. A cash grant, with a surtax, funded by eliminating the transfers that currently exist. I require that $3,000 be devoted to health care, but otherwise I will argue that many of the best effects of the UBI are fostered by the least direction: "Here's the money. Use it as you see fit. Your life is in your hands.

The entry of government into social insurance and then into a broader range of social interventions has caused incalculable human suffering. It has not produced a society in which fewer people are dependent than would otherwise have been the case. The welfare state has artificially, needlessly created a large dependent class. At the bottom is the underclass, stripped of dignity and autonomy, producing new generations socialized to their parents' behavior. There

Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.

The entry of government into social insurance and then into a broader range of social interventions has caused incalculable human suffering. It has not produced a society in which fewer people are dependent than would otherwise have been the case. The welfare state has artificially, needlessly created a large dependent class. At the bottom is the underclass, stripped of dignity and autonomy, producing new generations socialized to their parents' behavior.

Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.

Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.