Quotes About Autonomy

The best helping hand you will ever find is at the end of your own arm.

The only thing I need to take personally is my person.

Split your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.

Abortion is a question of choice.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

Only you can control your future.

The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.

Don't make other people's issues your own

Whatever we try to control ends up controlling us

A warning serves as a challenge to the child's autonomy.

When the child is allowed to experience the self as an individual with self-originating needs and goals, that child begins to assume responsibility for his or her own life and its demands. Allowance:

Freedom abhors the spirit of slavery.

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.

Maybe there's no secret essence inside me or you or them or anybody, nothing except what we choose for ourselves. No fate, no future, no past... except what we choose. No slaves and masters for the soul, only whores and politicians.

Man was predestined to have free will.

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.

Stan, don't let them tell you what to do!