Quotes About Autonomy

The best way to achieve freedom from your parents is to gain their trust by proving that you can take very good care of yourself in their absence.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Freedom involves a knowledge of choices. This alone is reason enough to get an education.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Being Free Means Being Lonely.

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Without freedom, no one really has a name.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission

Live free or die

Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules - your own vision.

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedomwhich is bordered on all sides by isolationis that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at lifes banquet.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties

Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.