Quotes about Autonomy

Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." "But I don't think of you." Toohey

It hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want, and you're on your own.

A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing. If you get past that and grown, it's easiest to forget about the misery and pretend you knew all along what you were doing.

I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.

We're responsible for our own lives.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power—the freedom to choose.

Quality begins with me. And I need to make my own decisions based on carefully selected principles and values.

In the last analysis, as Marilyn Ferguson observed, "No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

No one can hurt me without my consent.