Quotes About Autonomy

Your life is yours and yours alone. No one has the right to take it from you. That's right- no one. Not even your parents. And if someone wants threatens to take it from you...it's okay to run and never look back. You're more than allowed to protect yourself. Expecting someone to smile and say thank you to their family...when that "family" is stepping all over them- that's just abuse. It's just a curse.

My course of action depends on me.

Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

I refuse to be a slave, either to money or to love.

If the first man who comes along does not want her, she will have the next, or the one after. No need to wait any longer for just one man. No need to be sad when he does not turn up, or to expect anything and suffer when one's hopes are razed to the ground.

Saya tahu bahwa profesiku ini telah diciptakan oleh lelaki, dan bahwa lelaki menguasai dua dunia kita, yang di bumi ini dan di alam baka. Bahwa lelaki memaksa perempuan menjual tubuh mereka dengan harga tertentu, dan bahwa tubuh yang paling murah dibayar adalah tubuh sang istri. Semua perempuan adalah pelacur dalam satu atau lain bentuk. Karena saya seorang yang cerdas, saya lebih menyukai menjadi seorang pelacur yang bebas daripada menjadi seorang istri yang diperbudak.

How had he become her every moment? How had a man become her whole life? How could a person consume all her attention? She didn't know how it had happened. She wasn't the sort of woman that gives her life away to anyone. Her life was too important to give to one man. Above all, her life was not her own but belonged to the world, which she wanted to change.

I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another. Because I was intelligent I preferred to be a free prostitute, rather than an enslaved wife.

when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for "freedom," be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he's fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do. ANTARES

Well, you can fuck off,' said Blade. 'I am Mobius Clean,' said the AI.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.

If you make your own rules in life, rather than going by those laid down by others, you find that it becomes a lot more enjoyable.