Quotes About Autonomy

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Grown men do not need leaders.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.