Quotes About Autonomy

the ideal of a self-organizing society based on voluntary cooperation rather than upon coercion is irrepressible.

It wasn't his fault. It wasn't my fault. Darla chose her own path, as we all must.

You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.

Choose not what they love, but what you love.

Had I listened to the words of others, I'd have stayed nothing.

He will come to those who believe they need him least.

My end will come when he is able to live without me.

Pre-birth we are all equals; post-birth we are as we decide.

The hardest thing was to let Them and The Philosophy go from my complete control.

You know of me only what I choose to tell.

I would rather be ignored than patronized

A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.

There are no rules in life. Whether it is written down, or spoken by shamans, nothing binds a man beyond himself. Nothing, save the chains he accepts for himself. Laws and traditions mean nothing, if you have the strength.

I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.

If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn't matter what other people thought of him—even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.

Better to follow a woman's example than mindlessly heed the dictates of men.

No god save self, that is the way to live ...

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Joan commented, upon sentence, "My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me.

And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (????-?????????). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)