Quotes About Autonomy

The worst education is to leave him floating between his will and yours, and to dispute endlessly between you and him as to which of the two will be the master.

Qu'il voie par ses yeux, qu'il sente par son coeur ; qu'aucune autorité ne le gouverne, hors celle de sa propre raison.

L'homme vraiment libre ne veut que ce qu'il peut, et fait ce qu'il lui plaît.

Renoncer à sa liberté c'est renoncer à sa qualité d'homme

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Su principal deber es procurar su propia conservación, sus principales cuidados son los que se debe a sí mismo; y después que adquiere uso de razón, siendo él sólo el juez de los medios propios para conservarse, llega a ser por este motivo su propio dueño.

resolví no ligarme a nadie sino conservar mi independencia sacando partido de mis conocimientos, cuyo valor comenzaba a conocer al fin y que hasta entonces había juzgado con harta modestia.

Mais le corps politique ou le souverain ne tirant son être que de la sainteté du contrat ne peut jamais s'obliger, même envers autrui, à rien qui déroge à cet acte primitif, comme d'aliéner quelque portion de lui-même ou de se soumettre à un autre souverain. Violer l'acte par lequel il existe serait s'anéantir, et ce qui n'est rien ne produit rien.

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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.

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He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.

You were free to choose enslavement, but the choice was a free one only if you knew what your alternatives were.

There was nothing to compare with standing on a ice of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.

I'm a grown woman now," Mom said almost every morning. "Why can't I do what I want to do?

Because sometimes men don't take care of the women. And that's why we women need our jobs.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

An individual chooses and makes himself.

All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us