Quotes About Autonomy

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

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

No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Freedom isn't the right to live any kind of way, it's the right to live as you'd wish.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

My father told me the only thing you can trust in this world is yourself, so I didn't trust!

I used to care what people think about me until I tried paying my bills with their thoughts.

I used to be a watchmaker. It was a great job and I made my own hours.

Do not touch MY iPhone. It's not an usPhone, it's not a wePhone, it's not an ourPhone. It's an iPhone.

I don't understand people who say they need more Me Time. What other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone else's body

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

I realized that this is the theme I return to constantly - I'm always trying to prove to everyone that I can go it alone, that I can survive, that I don't need anybody.

We all share the right to create our own savage, as Glifford Geertz has remarked [ Out of the Garden ].

Cuando trabajamos para actuar en base no a nuestras emociones sino a nuestras elecciones, es cuando actuamos en Libertad