Quotes About Autonomy

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

If I choose to live a modest life, I'm a free man. If I'm forced to live a modest life, I'm a slave.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

He offered her the world. She said she had her own.

No being has the right to say to another, "Do this, or I will hurt you".

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Free is what every creature longs to be and has a right to be.

Io non ci ho mai tenuto a diventare un capo" rispose Grania. "Sono sempre andata dove volevo andare, e quando mi guardavo indietro vedevo che gli altri mi stavano seguendo.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Between the collapse of the utopian ideology of God's kingship on the one hand and the refusal to deify the king on the other, a semiautonomous sphere of human politics was born. God is not the king, and the king will be accepted only so long as he renounces all claims to be a god.

I sought advice and cooperation from those around me--but not permission.

When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me is ME.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

There can be no separation of the revolutionary process from the revolutionary goal. A society based on self-administration must be achieved by means of self-administration.

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

To be moral, an act must be free.

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible 'anarchy', why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?

If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as being in a state of impermissible 'anarchy,' why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighborhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?