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Quotes About Autonomy

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
~ Benjamin Spock
There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.
~ Joe Satriani
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
~ A.J. Ayer
No man can given anybody his freedom.
~ Stokely Carmichael
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Freedom is self-determination.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
~ James Baldwin
Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.
~ Betty Ford
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.
~ Robinson Jeffers
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
~ Euripides
America is best described by one word, freedom.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'
~ Jim Rohn
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
~ Aldous Huxley
Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.
~ Karl Jaspers
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
~ Benjamin Franklin
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
~ Ricardo Semler
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
~ John F. Kennedy
Creativity is the mystery of freedom.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
~ Maria Montessori
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.
~ Theo van Doesburg
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
~ Dick Cheney
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.
~ Irving Layton
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive
~ G. Edward Griffin