Quotes About Autonomy

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

Make it on your own if you think you can. If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

But with Taylor in command, he told you what you needed to do here—he had to run everything. You can't do a good job if you do not have a chance to use your imagination or your creativity.

If you don't like a book, you can close it. But you have no right to say I can't open it.

I am an advisor to prime ministers and presidents – a man loved and admired by the masses. I deserve my house and, damn it, I should be allowed to decide what I do with it. If I so wish to cover it in ice cream and lick it, that is my prerogative.' Mr

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody ( Joseph Heller, Catch

Freedom means choosing your burden.

The American system of rugged individualism.

You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.

Political freedom would mean liberation of the individuals from politics over which they have no effective control. Similarly

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual. The

The true history of mankind will be, in the strict sense, the history of free individuals, so that the interest of the whole will be woven into the individual existence of each.

La libera elezione di padroni e schiavi, non elimina né i padroni né gli schiavi" Herbert Marcuse "L'uomo a una dimensione

Non è l'ambito delle scelte aperte all'individuo il fattore decisivo nel determinate il grado della libertà umana, ma che cosa può essere scelto e che cosa è scelto dall'individuo.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Ein Individuum, das sich nicht in einen bürgerlichen Zustand zwingen [lässt], [kann] den Segnungen des Begriffs "Person" nicht teilhaftig werden.

Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is at the same time the almighty, divine will, which not only prescribes the good in the moral law, but also works it effectually in man himself. The heteronomy of law and the autonomy of man are reconciled only by this theonomy.

Ilse zegt: 'Maar ik dacht dat je... Dat je - hoe heet het - vrij was. Dat je -' 'Dat ben ik ook. In overdrachtelijke zin. Er is een oud...' Ik zie de Japanners opstaan en weggaan - 'Een oud Japans spreekwoord dat zegt: Vrij hoef je niet alleen te zijn als je alleen bent. Het is dan ook in die zin dat ik het begrip 'vrijheid' koester.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

The wonderful thing about being isolated is that, whatever you do, you're right. And if you're not, then neither are you wrong, because there's no bigmouth around to throw it up to you.