Quotes About Autonomy

You should be allowed to do whatever you want with your own person and property, as long as you don't physically harm the person or property of a nonconsenting other.

Do.As.Thou.Wilt.

Where does the state end and the self begin?

People don't resist change. They resist being changed.

The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

The Valley of Understanding: Here we all choose a different way and different rules to disobey.

As the activity culture of modernity constitutes itself against heteronomy, however, it will seek and find methods to place the commanding authority inside the hearer of the command themselves, so that they seem only to be obeying their inner voice when they submit. In this way, the fact of 'subjectivity' is demanded, created and fulfilled. What is meant, then, is the individual's co-determination of the authority that can give them commands.

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

Although I can work effectively in most environments, I prefer environments where people are their own bosses, within reason. I like to have a goal but be able to draw my own map to get there. To accomplish goals, I rely on asking questions and finding people receptive, so cooperation and access are important to me in a work group.

I don't do terribly well when someone has an exact idea of how one of my goals should be accomplished. That doesn't allow me any latitude to make adjustments to suit my own style. I do well when I can draw my own map.

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

IF YOU ARE GIVEN A CHOICE, YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE ACTED FREELY.

You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births.

Freedom you do not steal, freedom you have to have whole.

Tereddüdün ve tercih zaruretinin esaretinden kurtulmu? bir hürriyet var m?d?r?

Thanks for your questions, Elijah Burke, but I like to keep my reasons for joining The New Breed to myself.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

Sometimes you've just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

I'm not for organizations much - they seem to run people more than people run them.

We cannot, after all, be forced to be free or to value freedom.

But then, who's to say what is evil? "A man's beliefs are his own business. Neither the Church nor anybody else has any right to tell you how to think and how to act; that's what real freedom is about: to be able to be who you really are, not what you are expected or supposed to be," he later said.

A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23

The fundamental human need to belong comes from the desire to associate with others, to cooperate, to accept group norms. However, the SPE shows that the need to belong can also be perverted into excessive conformity, compliance, and in-group versus out-group hostility. The need for autonomy and control, the central forces toward self-direction and planning, can be perverted into an excessive exercise of power to dominate others or into learned helplessness.

Futureoriented people believe that when you choose a behavior, you choose its future consequences, but Zajonc, Bargh, and many others in social psychology have demonstrated that sometimes you do not choose a behavior. Sometimes a behavior chooses you based upon the environment in which you find yourself.