Quotes About Autonomy

There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.

10. Flexible personality 11. Individual core values 12. Freedom from personal constraints

That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work.

When everything constantly needs approval, you create a culture of nonthinkers.

I]appreciate a woman who knows when she's being coerced

Goodness me, no,' he replied with perhaps not quite the tone of veracity in his voice he'd hoped for, 'you can leave whenever you want.

aquella era una época en la que, allí, en Cataluña, nadie hablaba de ese tema. Entonces todos los periodistas, todo el mundo político y económico sabía que el gobierno autonómico estaba hasta arriba de mierda, pero nadie o casi nadie decía nada...

Job hunting is a do-it-yourself activity. There is just no way around it.

Man was created as a being whose very existence is derived from and dependent upon a Creator whom he must acknowledge as such and from whom he must obtain wisdom and knowledge through revelation. The purpose and meaning of his life, as well as his very existence, is derived and dependent. He can find none of this in himself. Man is not autonomous.

Stark was accustomed to being alone when things went wrong. For that matter, he was accustomed to being alone when things went right.

She knew enough about him to realize that no one would ever understand him unless he wished it, and that was highly unlikely. He was a man who operated alone, working by his own rules even when he was doing a job for his employers. Emily thought of him in the same way she thought of hurricanes, charging lions and marauding sharks. The only sensible thing to do when any of them was in the vicinity was to get out of the way.

I don't mind being killed, but I don't want them to touch me.

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

Çocuklar bir yanda özerk, sorumlu, özgür ve bilinçli varl?klar olmak zorundayken öte yandan boyun eÄŸmek, tepki göstermemek, itaat etmek ve kurallara uymak zorundad?rlar. Çocuk, bütün bu alanlarda mücadele etmek durumundad?r. ÖrneÄŸin, uymak zorunda kald??? çeliÅŸkili bir mecburiyete ikili bir stratejiyle kar?? koymaktad?r.

Liberty can be obtained, it cannot be regained.

Perché l'impulso del solo appetito è schiavitù, e l'obbedienza alla legge che noi stessi ci siamo dati è libertà.

A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.

I do not neglect myself, quite the contrary: this morning I took a bath and shaved. Only when I think back over those careful little actions, I cannot understand how I was able to make them, They are so vain. Habit, no doubt, made them for me. They aren't dead, they keep on busying themselves, gently, insidiously weaving their webs, they wash me, dry me, dress me, like nurses. Did they also lead me to this hill? I can't remember how I came anymore.

But if you seek counsel - from a priest, for example - you have selected that priest; and at bottom you already knew, more or less, what he would advise. In other words, to choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice. (From: Existentialism is a Humanism)

He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine.