Quotes About Autonomy

The mouse never takes the advice from the cat.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

I don't want to hear another word about my attitude. i don't want anyone looking over my shoulder, and I sure as hell don't want anyone second-guessing what I do. (Mitch Rapp)

Man depends on God for his continual existence and intellectual operations; he is not autonomous or independent in any sphere of life.

the evil desire for autonomy is so ingrained in fallen man's thinking that he insists that he has such freedom, and even asserts that the Bible acknowledges it.

For man to be free in any relevant sense, he must be free from God, and if he is free from God in any sense and in any degree, then God is not absolutely sovereign. The God of the Bible is rejected.[14]

If the human mind makes decisions based on factors, causes, and influences not chosen by the mind itself, then these decisions are not free.

People hate being told what to do or what to believe, although they think this way in part because they have been told to do so.

False doctrine results when people confuse responsibility with freedom, or when they assume that responsibility presupposes freedom, so that humans are responsible only if they are free.

God has the power of self-existence, meaning that his existence does not depend on anyone or anything, since there was nothing besides him at the beginning.

No particular reason for anything. ~I'm free~ And that is the main thing.

My parents and my whole family. Tersteeg, and along with him a lot of fellows who knew me when I was with Goupil & Co., went so far in their disapproval of all my doings that these last years, instead of wasting any more time on attempts to convince them, I, who have no time to waste, have simply given them the cold shoulder in my turn - and let them say, think, do whatever they like without minding it the least little bit.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

What I am is my own business.' 'Not any more.' He let his voice sink down meaningfully on the words. 'You are now my business — mine to control just as I fancy.

It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

Matthew nodded. "Aunt Abby is one in a million. I agree with her. I think every individual should feel they alone are responsible for their thoughts and actions.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is always an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers; the too fast, the timid and oneself.

Particularly difficult for partners is the reassertion of self, unless they have been very strong as individuals throughout the partnership. Learning to say 'I' instead of 'We' can be a painful task for two people who have grown into each other and become enmeshed.

A mature person is one who, having attained his majority, is able to make choices and decisions based on accurate perceptions about himself, others, and the context in which he finds himself; who acknowledges these choices and decisions as being his; and who accepts responsibility for their outcomes.

Women are not supposed to take up much room, or to go very far from home, or to stay away for long. They are not supposed to be by themselves. They are supposed to hear and obey, to come back when they are called.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

One has to forget about being sweet, pleasant, and helpful; one has to give oneself permission to publicly dominate the other. One has to manage without the other's approval.

I know that what girls do with their own clitorises in private isn't exactly my business, but this indifference to masturbation does bother me: if they don't touch themselves when they're alone, when do women connect with their own fantasies? How familiar are they with what really turns them on? And if you don't know that about yourself, what exactly do you know? What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?