Quotes About Autonomy

The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation.

Do exactly as you please–if you still trust what seems to please you.

What if, Veals's spokeswoman ruminated aloud, what if the viewer could become her/his own programming director; what if s/he could define the very entertainment-happiness it was her/his right to pursue?

Help, the working Account Representative called, feeling the stir of a tinily remembered humid wind and pausing, again, to look behind him, past the Brougham's black hood and the carelessly dropped safety helmet beside the white cycle, at the Ramp that spiraled up and out of sight toward a street, empty and bright, before the Building, empty and bright, dispossessed, autonomous and autonomic. Bent to what two lives required, below everything, he called for help again and again.

Marathe shifted in his chair. 'In a case such as this you become the slave who believes he is free.

No, she simply felt - at times, mind you, not all the time, but at sharp and distinctive intuitive moments - as if she had no real existence, except for what she said and did and perceived and et cetera, and that these were, it seemed at such times, not really under her control. There was nothing pure.

es la libertad que entraña la verdadera educación, el aprender a ser equilibrado: que puedes decidir conscientemente qué tiene sentido y qué no lo tiene. Puedes decidir a qué dioses adorar…

He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.

I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

Let every man be master of his time.

I was born free as Caesar; so were you

I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no other kin.

He that hath a will to die by himself fears it not from another.

Good; and what of him? ALEXANDER They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. CRESSIDA So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.

Que ella que con su muerte le dice a nuestro César: Me conquisté yo misma.

We can make a strong unconditional commitment to ourselves to take care of our deepest needs, no matter what other people do or don't do.

If you are refusing an alcoholic drink, for instance, you don't need to justify your refusal. A simple respectful "No thanks" will do. You know your Yes—that is essential—but sometimes you keep it to yourself, because it is your business and not theirs.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

We are the masters of our fate.

Love to learn—hate to be taught.

are not all women treated by all men like something inferior, like chattels you take up and put down at will?

Oh, nonsense,' said Ross. 'Don't owe your happiness to anyone.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught