Quotes About Autonomy

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.

We are all free spirits. We must choose to practice freedom.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Freedom means the right to be stupid.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town... Freemanville!

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.