Quotes About Autonomy

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take.

Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.