Quotes About Autonomy

Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically[.]

To be happy means to be self-sufficient.

Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are . Go play.

Until a person has discovered and dares to follow his own inner gleam, we may be sure of one thing: he will be leaning in either negative or positive dependence on someone outside himself!

But you don't make people safe by giving up their most basic rights What good is being safe if we have no freedom. - Mike

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

Autonomy in making decisions and the control it gives those that have it over their lives is essential, in his view, for a sense of well-being, social engagement, health

Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that's when the magic happens.

People naturally despise a dependant.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

I reckon I'll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life, but thank God I won't ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son of a bitch who's got two cents to buy a stamp.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

Todo hombre tiene el privilegio de destruirse a sí mismo siempre que no haga daño a nadie, siempre que viva para sí mismo y de sí mismo

It is any man's privilege to destroy himself

You saw a double. A hologram perhaps. Many things, Marly, are perpetrated in my name. Aspects of my wealth have become autonomous, by degrees; at times they even war with one another. Rebellion in the fiscal extremities.

After she'd called for the car, they waited outside while it drove itself over.

You always know what to do, you always know exactly what to do, you always do exactly what's right for you, and the rest of the world can go hang..

A society based on contract, therefore, gives the utmost room and chance for individual development, and for all the self-reliance and dignity of a free man. That

Freedom is only necessity understood.

Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do. Have the spiritual independence to be a Mormon--the best Mormon you can--in your own way. Not the bishop's way. Not the Relief Society president's way. Your way.