Quotes About Autonomy

That was one of the things she loved about him. He assumed she could walk and chew gum at the same time. He nevef second-guessed her, and he didn't try to change her. He accepted

At the end of the day, people have to be who they are. If you try to take that from them, you diminish them. You reduce them to children, unable to make decisions for themselves. There's no way to poison your relationship with someone else faster.

You can't go around making people's choices for them. Not if you love them.

What had changed things? What had made the difference? She had. All by herself.

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves.

the end of the day, people have to be who they are. If you try to take that from them, you diminish them. You reduce them to children, unable to make decisions for themselves. There's no way to poison your relationship with someone else faster.

And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.

Can't just tell a soul it is free, Tavar. Freedom must be done for oneself. Important that the slaves created their own freedom.

And besides. You can't go around making people's choices for them. Not if you love them.

Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.

The blue coat or the red coat? Put the mittens in the pocket or wear them? They have to decide; the little voice inside their head does the talking. The more decisions kids make, the more times we ask them questions instead of telling them what to do, and the more we discuss issues using thinking words, the less likely they'll be negatively influenced by peers later on.

Children learn early in life that their parents can't get into their brains. We can't make them think what we think or believe what we believe. When we try, we invite their disobedience;

the older men who had asked neither favors nor assistance from anyone. They had settled their own problems in their own way or died trying, and if they died, no survivor had ever looked to the law for redress. Andy

They had no hope of anything more, no comprehension that there might be anything more. In a sense they were an autonomous body, functioning within a society which was organized to grind them down. The law did not protect them; for them it was merely an instrument of harassment, a means of moving them on when it was against their interest to move, or detaining them where it was to their disadvantage to stay.

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language

I dealt with it the same way I deal with everything. I just tended my own garden, didn't pay much attention, behaved—I suppose—deviously. I mean I didn't actually let too many people know what I was doing.

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car. I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

So that she would not have to stop for food she kept a hard-boiled egg on the passenger seat of the Corvette.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

She did not want to court further appraisal by asking anyone for anything.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.