Quotes About Autonomy

Free won't is true freedom of will. Freedom from the will of ego-mind.

Legal, regulated voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide have far less potential for abuse, and when they are available, there is no need to make it easy for people to find out how to kill themselves.

I've always been interested in getting players to think for themselves so that they can make difficult decisions in the heat of battle.

When I let him solve the problem himself, he was more likely to buy into the solution and not repeat the same counterproductive behavior in the future.

it occurred to me that if others have so often made your life their business--made your life into a question, really, and made that question their business-- then perhaps you will want to guard the memory of those times when you were freer to imagine yourself as the only times that are truly and inviolably your own.

Human infants are semi-robots who possess, however, a limited though vigorous free will. Some of them become adults who use free will as much as possible. But the majority use their free will only once in their lives, that is, at the moment they unconsciously decide they won't ever use their free will.

Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war - perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves.

Isn't it true, Mr. Tagomi said, that no man should be the instrument for another's needs? He leaned forward urgently. Please give me your neutral Scandinavian opinion.

Im not much but im all I have - Martian Time-Slip

O s? cred ce vreau eu s? cred, iar tu crezi ce vrei. De acord?

I'm not in the novel, I am the novel

cuando se crea algo, adquiere vida propia y deja de pertenecer al creador que la ha moldeado y dirigido según sus deseos.

Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off.

What work do I have to do then? said Will, but went on at once, No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll always be thinking about it, and if I end up doing that, I'll feel resentful because it'll feel as I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

Make a noise in there and I won't help you. You're on your own.

I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.

Everybody has the right to form their own opinion and read what they like and come to their own conclusion about it... I trust the reader.

No aceptaría la tiranía del nosotros, la cháchara del nosotros y todo lo que el nosotros quiere volcarte encima.

My happiness is not in the gift of others. I will be happy or I will not be happy. No man will supply it or deprive me of it.

If I am a homosexual, then I am that way by choice.

You said something once, Charles, that has stayed in my head like a ball bearing bouncing around the inside of an empty steel drum. You said that it was your family too, and nobody ever asked you what you wanted. Well, this is me asking you. All of you.

None of us should wait to be told what to do, or how to do it. Micromanagement kills initiative, judgment and creativity.