Quotes About Autonomy

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.

It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

In my soul, I am free.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.