Quotes About Autonomy

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.

You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. They'll drop it. They'll drop it every time.

My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Every people should persue happiness in their own way.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.