Quotes About Autonomy

A hungry man is not a free man.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Freedom is from within.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency

What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all

You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.