Quotes about Autonomy
When everything constantly needs approval, you create a culture of nonthinkers.
— Jason Fried
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
— Aristotle
People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.
— George H. W. Bush
I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.
— Ayn Rand
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
— Thomas Merton
What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
— Thomas a Kempis
To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It
— Mortimer Adler
Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self.
— Napoleon Hill
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
— Thomas Jefferson
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
— Thomas Jefferson
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance.
— Thomas Jefferson
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man's city?(100)
— Thomas Merton