Quotes About Autonomy

God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

…God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own.

Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.

There is no man in this world that God created to be a shadow of other people

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves.