Quotes About Autonomy

The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Becoming our own person, breaking free from our "ought selves"—the identity molded by important people in our lives—is at the heart of the transition process.7 So is ridding ourselves of an unhealthy overidentification with the organizations that employ us, a harder-to-recognize but equally problematic self-definition.

Since her marriage, she had been left free to pursue her love of literature, inherited

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

don't expect Nicky to provide some kind of happily ever after for you. Because it's not up to him, it's up to you.

It's not easy to separate a person from their programming.

A printing press that can write its own books? A mind that thinks about itself? If I don't have it, at least the King of France doesn't either.

He says he needs mothering." "....Even if he didn't need mothering, which after all is only another way of saying he needs a slave.

We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.

I believe in delegating power.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Acting on my own, I ordered the mayor of the town of Lubang to supply us with fifty sacks of polished rice. When the Suehiro and Ã…Å'saki outfits found out about this, without saying anything to me they ordered the mayor to supply them with rice too. The mayor came weeping and said that if the islanders supplied all our demands, they would starve.

You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.

Sometimes it's better to let people handle their own problems. Sometimes just believing in someone is the best way to stand up for them.

No, I won't help you. No, I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word:  no . You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no.

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.

But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.

There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.

It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.

Remember, all you really get to control is yourself.

I hope to be able to decide for myself - when we turn, is there something shoved inside of us or is it that something inside of us has been released?