Quotes About Autonomy

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

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

For one to be free there must be at least two.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.