Quotes About Autonomy

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.

I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.

Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.

And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.

Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.

Nobody makes anybody enlightened.Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

There is, in practice, no such thing as autonomy. Practically, there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence.

He said that when we finally did get the farm paid for we could tell everybody to go to hell. That was what he lived for, to own his farm without having to say please or thank you to a living soul.

You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces.

When a woman wants me to do anything (my daughter, or not, it doesn't matter), I always insist on knowing why. The oftener you make them rummage their own minds for a reason, the more manageable you will find them in all the relations of life. It isn't their fault (poor wretches!) that they act first and think afterwards; it's the fault of the fools who humour them.

the long luxury of your own freedom has made you incapable of doing us justice now.

Are you free of each other, pretty Mrs. Valeria, by common consent of both parties?

You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

It will be better for both of us Let me go.

Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods.

A physician or engineer is free in his thoughts or his actions in the degree in which he knows what he deals with. Perhaps we find here the key to any freedom.

When the Duke of Wei offered him the prime ministry he dismissed the royal messengers with a curtness indicative of a writer's dreams: "Go away quickly, and do not soil me with your presence. I had rather amuse and enjoy myself in a filthy ditch than be subject to the rules and restrictions in the court of a sovereign.

apparently there was no reason now why a man should not do as he pleased, so long as he remained within the law. A disintegrating individualism had weakened the Athenian character