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Quotes About Autonomy

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.
~ Robert Redford
Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.
~ Robert Rodriguez
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.
~ Fausto Cercignani
A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.
~ Ayn Rand
The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.
~ Gloria Steinem
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
~ Ben Jonson
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
~ Rachel Griffiths
Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.
~ David Levithan
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.
~ David O. McKay
Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.
~ Edmund Burke
Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!
~ Ron Paul
I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.
~ Eli Russell Linnetz
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
~ William Hazlitt
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
~ Rudolf Steiner
What I'm really interested in is freedom.
~ Eve Ensler
Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
~ W. H. Auden
Freedom is the silence of the law.
~ George Will
Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.
~ Tammy Bruce
The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.
~ Winston Churchill
Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.
~ Henry Adams