Quotes About Autonomy

I'll do anything reasonable, but I won't be intimidated and I won't grovel.

We will live in independence because we will live within our income.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.

My ability to heal cannot depend on anyone's choices but my own.

But weeping with them and rejoicing with them does not mean trying to take control of their out-of-control choices and behaviors. We can forgive them. But we cannot control them. And we should not enable them.

Here's the reality of our current technique: Other people's requests dictate the decisions we make. We become slaves to others' demands when we let our time become dictated by requests. We will live reactive lives instead of proactive.

I acknowledge that I can control only myself. I can't control how another person acts or reacts.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

there is no difference…between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure."

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Freedom is just another word for being alone

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

I came into the world alone." She picked up her shoe and scratched the crust out of the tread. She said, "I didn't want to go out of it alone.

I'll breathe in whatever face I want to breathe in.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

A Máquina era que matava os homens porém os homens é que mandavam na Máquina...

They do as they please, they say what they think, and nobody cares, for everyone is busy doing likewise.

God waits for our permission and doesn't invade our privacy as we do with others. Everybody has free choice.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.