Quotes About Autonomy

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Serene silence about your intentions can be incredibly powerful when you are speaking with someone who is trying to control you.

It calls itself 'Murderbot,'" Gurathin said. I opened my eyes and looked at him; I couldn't stop myself. From their expressions I knew everything I felt was showing on my face, and I hate that. I grated out, "That was private.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between being treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized.

The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me. That's why I left you, Dr. Mensah, my favorite human. By the time you get this I'll be leaving Corporation Rim. Out of inventory and out of sight. Murderbot end message.

I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats.

Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like.

Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

because privacy blah blah blah

Why, thank you for your permission, Tremaine." Tremaine made a derisive noise, unimpressed. "Somebody's got to give you permission, if you won't give it to yourself.

as you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

ART had an alternate, more drastic plan that included giving me sex-related parts, and I told it that was absolutely not an option. I didn't have any parts related to sex and I liked it that way. I had seen humans have sex on the entertainment feed and on my contracts, when I had been required to record everything the clients said and did. No, thank you, no. No.

I'm not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, "If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I've already disposed of.

No era el tipo de humano que preguntaba cosas que podía buscar por sí mismo en la red.

I was getting tired of being told what to do. Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

humans and augmented humans can't sign away their rights to their labor or bodily autonomy in perpetuity; that's like, straight-up illegal.)

The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves.

Pin-Lee had promised, "Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like.")

It would never stop being novel to be around a bunch of humans in a relatively confined space and be able to close a door between me and them and not have to care what they were doing.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

I hate being carted around like equipment, even though technically I am actually equipment.