Quotes About Autonomy

The mind seems to have a mind of its own.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

The greatest power a person possesses is the power to choose.

Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

So my solution is simple. If you can't be held fully accountable for your actions, you need a keeper. Or to put it another way: if you're not grown-up enough to be trusted with a gun, you need a keeper. And the keeper — of the fetus, or the animal, or the tree, or the mental incompetent — is the one who is held responsible for the well-being of his charge, and for any liabilities resulting from its doings.

The life of a healthy individual is characterized by fears, conflicting feelings, doubts, frustrations, as much as by the positive features. The main thing is that the man or woman feels he or she is living his or her own life, taking responsibility for action or inaction, and able to take credit for success and blame for failure. In one language it can be said that the individual has emerged from dependence to independence, or to autonomy.

Without a solid sense of self, individuals will remain spiritually enslaved to the group, even if the social system changes.

Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

so democracy means more than just going to vote. Democracy means that people should truly have the opportunity to govern their own affairs. The

We have taken government and turned it into a surrogate parent, even a surrogate self, as we let regulation replace conscience. We

What we truly want is the satisfaction of seeing our children become mature, self-reliant human beings, at any age, thinking for themselves, free and happy. Parents who want anything else are obsessed with control and not free and happy themselves.

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

freedom must be fought for, every day.

Asking, "If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?" is like asking, "If there is no master, whose slave will I be?" If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom who should detest.

An armed man is a little republic unto himself

I tell my board as little as possible," he says. "I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.

The company," he says, "doesn't need a reason to fire you. The company can do whatever it wants." A week later, on September 2, the Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend, Trotsky forwards me an email that Cranium has sent around to everyone in the marketing department. We're

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes

So many therapists tell their patients how to think and how to feel. That is awfully wrong" (Erickson, Rossi, and Rossi 1976, 101).

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

autonomy without clarity is ultimately a disaster.

In the beginning, there were farmers and animal husbanders. Life was hard, brutal, and short. Taxes and other requirements imposed by chiefs, landlords, or the state were onerous. Many people were serfs or slaves, devoid of autonomy and dignity. Poverty and injustice were the norm, save for the lucky few.