Quotes About Autonomy

Better not ask people about everything. They might like to keep their secrets to themselves.

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

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

It isn't a choice when you don't have the freedom to say no. A yes doesn't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed.

No.» A Nomi si spezzò il cuore. «Non è una scelta se non si ha la libertà di dire no. Un sì non ha valore quando è l'unica risposta concessa!»

Allow? Shouldn't women decide what they'll allow for their own bodies, not a government acting out an antiquated, unnecessary law?

Why Do we insist our lives are ours?

I am not What you intend me to be.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

Don't be second place to anybody. Don't be that fallback person who's always there. Once there's someone else in your place, leave. You are not an option.

Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of the game.

You can eat whatever and whenever you want, so long as it's during meal hours in the cafeteria.

You're allowed to keep the lights on in your rooms as late as you wish until ten o'clock each night.

Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!

Equality implies individuality.

How could she ever plan her future when there was always someone who would go out of her way to step in and try to plan it for her?

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918

I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.

It's got nothing to do with god, but the power of my own mind. I have to save me, no one else can do it for me.

Actually, the most frightening power of freedom is to freely give itself up to the forces that stunt it.

Don't we lose something when everything is done for us?

Dad would never work for anyone else; he likes being lord himself too much. And he doesn't want to fight any more dragons. He'd rather hide from them.

What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?

As you know very well,' said Stephen, 'I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy. But I too am a naval officer, brother; long, long ago you taught me that anyone nourished on ship's biscuit must learn to choose the lesser of two weevils. On