Quotes About Autonomy

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

Never try to fix other people. God does not need to do a bank shot off your lips.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

My God, my higher power. It's mine and mine alone. I create my connection and I decide how my connection is going to be.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.