Quotes About Autonomy

Il y a une forme de force, qui n'est ni masculine, ni féminine, qui impressionne, affole, rassure. Une faculté de dire non, d'imposer ses vues, de ne pas se dérober.

People have a right to their lives,' she says softly.

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Dare to think for yourself.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

F]or the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.

We would drive to Canada, where it would probably be legal for us to get married- it was Canada where they let people do whatever they wanted because it was too cold to bother stopping them.

Oh, that's just great, Alan. You come into my head, you start calling me "we," when I sleep at night you're driving around in my truck, and you think it's a bad idea to mess with other people's lives?

A company should never outsource its eyes. There is simply no substitute for seeing for yourself. Great artists don't paint from other people's descriptions or even from photographs; they like to see the subject for themselves. The same is true for great strategists.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

I have never, I think, wanted to 'belong' to a group whose interests were not mine, nor have I resented exclusion. Why should thet accept me? All I have ever asked is that others should go their way and let me go mine.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

The solution of the Punjab problem may lie in a radical redrafting of the Indian Constitution to produce a federation that gives more regional autonomy. Punjab is not the only region to have been in conflict with the centre, but it is the only one in which religion and politics have united to create a powerful opposition.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

To be free is often to be lonely.

Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.