Quotes About Autonomy

Whether or not you "need" someone at this point is immaterial. It is an exercise.

Ultimately, you must find your own answers; other people's answers are never enough.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary

Think for yourself. Question authority.

When God's wise and loving rule over you is replaced with self-rule, other people become your subjects.

Self-Sufficiency

Your spouse, your friends, and your children cannot be the sources of your identity.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

I wanted to serve, but it had to be on my terms and on my time schedule.

People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both. You

The choice to be public depends on the ability to maintain a private sphere of life. We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen.

The choice to be in public depends on the ability to maintain a private sphere of life. We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen.

We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen.

We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Ka?da organizacja jest dla mnie za ciasna. Mam potrzeb? wolno?ci. Taka wolno?c jest m?cz?ca, bo za ka?dym razem w obliczu jakiego? problemu, kiedy trzeba postanowi?, co my?le?, co zrobi?, mo?na odwo?a? si? tylko do w?asnego umys?u, w?asnego serca, a nie do ?atwej, gotowej to u?ytku linii partyjnej albo s?ów jakiej? ?wi?tej ksi?gi.

Hungry people mindlessly follow orders. You feed them enough and right away they demand self-government.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

The need for uniformity is a sign of insecurity on the part of management. Strong managers don't care when team members cut their hair or whether they wear ties. Their pride is tied only to their staff's accomplishments

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!