Quotes About Autonomy

Process standardization from on high is disempowerment. It is a direct result of fearful management, allergic to failure.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Without the right to self-preservation all of the other rights are meaningless.

Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.

It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .

We need to be responsible for ourselves; we must create our own republics. Today we hand over our responsibility to the boss, to the company, to government, and then blame them when everything goes wrong.

If you own yourself, you own the world.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Ja nie dla ludzi chc? by? kim?. Chc? by? kim? dla siebie.

What I did, I did on my own. Don't mourn me. Be joyful.

But I don't want to be out there anymore I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

The practice of euthanasia, under some circumstances, is morally required by the two most widely regarded principles that guide medical practice: respect for patient autonomy and promoting patient's best interests. In the Netherlands and Belgium active euthanasia may be carried out within the law.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

I must become my own owner, my own authority. I must be a home to myself, and I must find a way to live what I believe.

Eine Hure ist eine Dame, die es für Geld macht, was mir viel mehr einleuchtet, als es umsonst zu machen.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

The main thing in life is to know your own mind.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself.

Before she left, she said, "Just remember one thing: Going along with something doesn't mean you give in to it.[...]

How nice to be on your own for a bit and do what you like.

Too-ticky shrugged her shoulders. 'One has to discover everything for oneself,' she replied. 'And get over it all alone.