Quotes About Autonomy

Nobody controls me. I travel with my husband when I can, when I know that I can go, and I know that my son is okay alone for a few days with the help.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

My job is my own only land.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.