Quotes About Autonomy

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas—not consuming those of others.

To alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.

The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

Don't touch me without my permission. Mr. Little Boy

I don't want to fight for anything. I want to just be and do, with no one saying they're letting me.

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die The in between is mine I am mine

y teniendo yo más alma, tengo menos libertad?

Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

But it is arrogance that keeps one alive: the belief that one can choose, that one' choice is important, that one is responsible only to oneself. Without arrogance what would we be?

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

You decide for yourself when it will hurt.

and we do decide for ourselves when it will hurt.

Du bestemmer sjøl når det skal gjøre vondt.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

Yet am I king over myself, and rule The torturing and conflicting throngs within. - Prometheus Unbound