Quotes About Autonomy

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

When we asked, What do you love? Sylvia looked around her perfectly pink room and said, I'm not the boss of me. How the hell would I even know.

After a certain span of years, a man who has no family of his own becomes if not dangerous, then impervious.

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

Once again we are faced with a choice of "all or nothing." If we make use of technique, we must accept the specificity and autonomy of its ends, and the totality of its rules. Our own desires and aspirations can change nothing.

No technique is possible when men are free.

Okurken eÄŸitimin kökünde insan? yaratmaya dair belli bir fikrin yatt???n? görüyorsunuz; sanki insan? yaratan eÄŸitimmiÅŸ gibi. Halbuki, iÅŸin doÄŸrusu insan? eÄŸitmek gereksizdir. Tüm eÄŸitimini kendisi edinir. Öyle ya da böyle eÄŸitir kendisini. Elbet bir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmek zorunda kalacak ve bunun için dirsek çürütecektir.

Unless we define happiness in a rather sad way, namely that it is to be like everyone else, which is what the autonomous ego could be resolved into - nobody, it must be said, knows what it is.

The government does not owe the people education for the simple reason that one does not owe the people what it can take for itself. And education is like liberty: it is not given, it is taken.

Devenir autonome, c'est prendre le risque de s'affirmer en renonçant à l'approbation de ceux qui prétendent nous aimer.

But when it comes to the inner situation, there is only one ingredient: you. At least you must happen the way you want.

Only when a person begins to experience a dimension beyond the physical within himself, then he can play with the physical world whichever way he wants, he can do the best that he can do in the outside world, but the interiority is undisturbed. If your body, if your mind, if your emotions, if your energies are not functioning the way you want them to, then this is the worst kind of slavery, because somebody else decides what should happen within you.

But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.

I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

Mindlessly working to impress someone else will ensure your success is always dependent on that someone else.

Only himself manacles man.

We're taught at an early age that we're not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

If you can't walk away from a negotiation, then you aren't negotiating. You're just working out the terms of your slavery.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Everything must belong to everybody and must present the hypothesis of a world without god, without king, without government, without masters.