Quotes About Autonomy

You're not mine to give away. You belong to the tribe." "I don't belong to anyone! I'm not a thing to be kept or ordered or driven to such despair that I open my own veins. Look at me, Aoife. Look at me. I'm a woman.

A woman should judge priests for herself, as she would any other man. When they make demands you think unfair, speak to the king's man at Caer Larat.

This is your body. Yours. No one but you has the responsibility to keep it, to keep yourself, whole. If someone pins you to the ground, what will you do?

It was strange, seeing her in clothes I had not bought or lent her, drinking wine she had selected without my advice, without needing me there.

Without anyone to please, she no longer bent and swayed. No longer willow but oak.

No one knew me; there was no one to compare my behaviour in the shop with my behaviour at other times. I could be fluid and responsible only to myself.

There was no world in which she would be queen to another's king. Eanflæd would be peaceweaver. She was the light of the world.

The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him.

The idea of "the free development of personality" seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has developed freely.

To be an aristocrat is to not believe that everything depends on the will.

For the trunk of individuality to grow, one must prevent freedom from making the trunk spread out into branches.

The society of the future: slavery without masters.

In order to live peacefully with one's neighbor, there is nothing better than not having a single postulate in common.

To say that freedom consists of something other than doing what we want is a lie. That it is proper, on the other hand, to limit freedom is an obvious fact. But deceit begins when they seek to identify freedom with the limitations they impose on it.

Die Idee der "freien Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit" scheint ausgezeichnet, solange man nicht auf Individuen stößt, deren Persönlichkeit sich frei entfaltet hat.

Modern man accepts any yoke, as long as the hand imposing it is impersonal.

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Quelle liberté nous reste-t'il si nos propres choix sont conditionnés par des émotions sur lesquelles nous n'avons aucune emprise ?

Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to.

Hören Sie auf niemanden, der Ihnen sagt, Sie sollten nicht allein trinken.

Central to Mill's approach throughout On Liberty is his 'Harm Principle', the idea that individual adults should be free to do whatever they wish up to the point where they harm another person in the process. Mill's principle is apparently straightforward: the only justification for interference with someone's freedom to live their life as they choose is if they risk harming other people.

Choose whatever box you like, Mike. Just don't put me in one, son. Believe me, I won't fit.