Quotes About Autonomy

Everyone is molded", said his mother. "We choose what to mold our children with. Nothing grows in a vacuum. If you think you're making a free human being just by letting him grow spontaneously, you won't end up with a free human being. You'll have a patchwork boy composed of whatever is prowling about in his culture. He'll be about as far from freedom as you can get.

How does your boss like to communicate? How often? What kinds of decisions does he want to be involved in, and when can you make calls on your own? Does your boss arrive at the office early and work late? Does he expect others to do the same?

Kids … when someone's making decisions for you, you can bet that they've also decided to take what's yours.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!

Wake up! Don't let them control you. Don't let them impose an identity on you. Don't obey them. Never submit to a prophet or a holy book. Think for yourself. Wear what you like. Eat what you like. Pray when you like. Don't you want to be free rather than a slave? Create your own identity. Create yourself. Because only those who do can become God. Nietzsche, an atheist, came far closer to the True God than any follower of any mainstream religion.

To produce the Music of the Spheres, the Harmonies of the Heavens, we need a collectivist, communitarian world where strong, autonomous individuals know that they get the best from themselves by getting the best from others. By helping others we most of all help ourselves

We seek to replace the prevailing value system based on extraverted, irrational, superstitious, ignorant, emotional narratives (Mythos), and master-slave systems embedded throughout society, with an introverted, rational, knowledgeable Logos society devoid of privilege and unhealthy master-slaves relationships. We are for the liberty of the autonomous individual within the constraints set by rational laws designed to promote the benefit of all.

You shape yourself, you make yourself. There is no one to save you other than yourself. It's not Christ, Mohammed or Moses who's responsible for your life, it's you. In the end, souls judge themselves.

He does not care if people fail to understand what he did in the woods. He didn't do it for us to understand.

But people's ability to take personal responsibility is shaped by their circumstances. People cannot take responsibility if they cannot control what happens to them.

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

We make our own rules and lose by them.

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

Leaders who promote a questioning culture in their organizations move people from dependence to independence.

Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choice that human beings can make and billiard balls cannot.

El Estado no debería ratificar —con sus políticas o sus leyes— ninguna concepción determinada de la vida buena, sino proporcionar un marco neutral de derechos, dentro del cual las personas puedan escoger sus propios valores y fines.

Government may not interfere with individual liberty in order to protect a person from himself, or to impose the majority's beliefs about how best to live. The only actions for which a person is accountable to society, Mill argues, are those that affect others. As long as I am not harming anyone else, my "independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."19

Conformity, in Mill's account, is the enemy of the best way to live.

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I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

Those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them.