Quotes About Autonomy

Sinn Fein,' 'Ourselves alone

The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you.

Mnie Bóg, w ?yciu moim, nigdy nie byÅ' potrzebny - od najwczeÅ›niejszego dzieciÅ"stwa, ani przez pi?? minut - byÅ'em zawsze samowystarczalny. / I have never in my life needed God - from the infancy, since I was 5, I was self-sufficient. (Dziennik 1956, XVIII Niedziela)

My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to serve it. I cultivate just one politics: my own. I am a separate state.

I was left alone but actually not alone—how could I be alone when I wasn't even there, I had no sense of being there, and not a single thought, gesture, action, or word, in fact nothing seemed to be mine, but rather it was as if it had all been settled somewhere outside myself, decided for me—because in reality I was quite different!

Yes, but I wasn't running around asking other people how to do it.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

And then I started to think, that the less I know about what people think of my work, the better off I am.

Una no aprende a ser puta en los bares, ni en las fiestas, ni en la calle. La putería se aprende en soledad.

I abhor the human stupidity and vanity that takes pride in forcing tigers, lions, and leopards to sit nicely side by side. It reminds me of the government choreography that displays brightly garbed minorities in a parade, minorities granted a crumb of political autonomy in exchange for providing an optical simulation of cultural diversity in their country of residence. But wild animals (as opposed to humans) form groups according to species to enjoy specific benefits.

I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.

You can keep your sweaty, chatty Son to yourself.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?

There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.

Higher stage [regarding moral reasoning] parents do not use love withdrawal as a parenting technique and prefer discussion-based parenting (e.g., induction). Higher stage parents are less likely to endorse "conventional" values (e.g., obedience, manners, respect for rules and law) and are more likely to endorse values that promote autonomy and commitment to and respect for others.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

Never allow others to create your world because if you do, they will always make it too small.

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

You know why my wheelchair doesn't have handles, Grayson? I don't like to be pushed.

I have to find another path. Divine my own future. One uniquely mine. Not a page from someone else's book. Not a fate that begins and ends on page one.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.