Quotes About Autonomy

on a political level, where every arbitrary act of power tends to reinforce a feeling that it's not power, but arbitrariness—that is, freedom itself—that is the problem.

Those who have argued that we are the natural owners of our rights and liberties have been mainly interested in asserting that we should be free to give them away, or even to sell them.

That's what anarchism is for me: a community of purpose without a community of definition.

ÖrneÄŸin Ä°ngiliz liberalizmi devlet bürokrasisinin azalt?lmas?na deÄŸil, tam aksine yol açm??t?r; özerk bireyler aras?nda özgür sözleÅŸme ÅŸeklindeki liberal rüyay? mümkün k?lan hukuk görevlileri, sicil memurlar?, müfettiÅŸler, noterler ve polis memurlar? kadrolar?n?n durmaks?z?n ÅŸiÅŸmesine.

Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy.

was as if a wall of mist were at my back, and behind that wall there was not yet an "I." But at this moment I came upon myself.Previously I had existed, too, but everything had merely happened to me. Now I happened to myself. Now I knew: I am myself now, now I exist. Previously, I had been willed to do this and that; now I willed.20

He goes his way Without relying on others And does not pride himself On walking alone.70

Capital takes away the autonomy of our time and makes it impossible for large segments of the population to leave the realm of necessity behind. In fact, the largest segment of the population is struggling hard to get access to basic necessities, which means that they have a very restricted capacity and time for freedom of expression.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

I didn't give you this life, honey. They took to you because of who you are. You gave yourself this life.

If you don't have your own opinion...than you have somebody else's.

I can help, but in the end it is up to you

The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. You don't know me at all.

Hay que dejar que los talentos decidan la orientación del trabajo y no al revés, decía.

Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control.

To be a free man, one must have a universe of one's own

While those of us in schools may wish to blame others for imposing constraints, many of our constraints are self imposed. Are we able to escape from these and respond to what we believe is best for our students? One

We are free at last to believe in ourselves.

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

God doesn't participate in the things we can do ourselves

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.