Quotes About Autonomy

If you had the freedom to decide what to do, you also had the responsibility to make good choices, given your priorities. What

Trusting yourself and the source of your intelligence is the most elegant lesson of experiencing freedom and manifesting personal productivity.

All of us can do what we like." "No we can't. You're stupid if you think so.

Robie took a deep, cleansing breath. He had never played well with others. For the last dozen years he had worked in almost total isolation. He preferred it that way. He was better alone than with a team. That's just how he was built.

Sheep follow blindly. We're not supposed to be sheep.

When he ate out, he ate alone. He didn't shop

You can't live someone else's life for them. Hell, it's hard enough living your own.

Just because I work there doesn't mean I have to drink all the Kool-Aid. - Veronica Knox

Because it taught me right from the start to rely only on myself," he said

But then again, our life is what we make it, right? Bad choices. You can't blame others for that.

It's the exercise of power, not the exercise of freedom, that requires justification.

Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.

man's first realization that he was not identical with nature was also a crucial step, because it made possible a kind of autonomy in his thinking, which allowed him to go beyond the immediately given limits of nature, first in his imagination and ultimately in his practical work.

And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do

In the early twentieth century, when John D. Rockefeller was petitioning Congress for a charter to create the first foundation, a top nonprofit leader of that time, Edward Devine, argued the charter should only be granted if public officials had some say over the selection of board members. The idea never went anywhere and has rarely been raised since. Foundations answer only to themselves.

Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.

We live in a complicated and interdependent society; each of us is constantly affected by events thousands of miles away occurring to people he has never heard of. How, in such a society, can we meaningfully talk about each person being free to go his own way? The answer to this question lies in the concept of property rights.

I believe, as many say they believe, that everyone has the right to run his own life—to go to hell in his own fashion.

You are the only one who can decide what is important to you in your relationship.

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

won't be them; it will be me.

How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

There are no choices without personal freedom…We say that one cannot be human without freedom…Your freedom is the freedom from, no one tells your precious individual USA selves what they must do. It is this meaning only, this freedom from constraint, and forced duress. But what of the freedom to? Not just free from. Not all compulsion comes from the without…how for the person to freely choose?