Quotes About Autonomy

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.

Our thoughts are free.

To each his own.

To each his own. (Suum Cuique)

At least I fight my own battles, Alister,' Micah said. 'Really? And exactly why did you go cackling to the dean?

Maaf, Bapak-Bapak. Aku adalah pemberontak dan akan selalu memberontak. Aku tidak mau didikte di hari pernikahanku.

Sebagai sahabat yang lebih tua, Amerika bisa memberi kami nasihat. Tetapi jangan mencampuri urusan kami. Kami telah melihat pelaksanaan kapitalisme dan demokrasi Barat melalui bangsa Belanda. Kami tidak ingin menerapkan sistem itu. Biarkan kami berkembang dengan satu metode baru yang sesuai dengan kepribadian kami. Itu bukanlah sesuatu yang bisa diekspor, tetapu sebaliknya kami juga tidak akan mengimpor doktrin-doktrin yang tidak sesuai untuk kami.

Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's." Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt. It broke his heart.

You have to stop looking for someone else to save you. Only you can do that for yourself.

Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.

Your hands are not your own,'" Jaime quoted. "'Neither your breasts, nor, above all, is any orifice of your body, which we are at liberty to explore and into which we may, whenever we so please, introduce ourselves.'" "Precisely!

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

To think is to differ.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.

Pero existirá la libertad sin el permiso previo de la locura

Be to, kaipgi b?si susaistyta su vyru, jeigu neleisi jam tav?s ?kalinti? Kaip uždrausi jam sum?ryti savo keturias sienas jos k?nui ir jos sielai? Ar ?manoma k? nors tur?ti neleidžiant tur?ti tav?s?

The minute she sensed he had left the house, however, she transformed, concentrated on herself and, as if she had merely been interrupted by him, continued slowly living.

Listen: I let you be, therefore let me be.

Sólo un solitario es capaz de estar al lado de otro sin sentir la necesidad, la obligación y el derecho, de poseerlo ni de cambiarlo.

Elena lo espera en silencio, frente a él pero de espaldas, y antes de que responda dice, mejor no me ponga un nombre, Padre, tal vez si usted o su iglesia encuentran una palabra para nombrarme, después se arroguen el derecho de decirme cómo tengo que ser, cómo tengo que vivir. O morir.

el daño que se puede hacer al otro cuando no lo dejamos elegir más camino que aquel que nosotros creemos correcto.

Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful.