Quotes about Autonomy

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

All that is done on compulsion is bitterness to the soul.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each instrument could do its own work, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation, like the statues of Daedalus or the tripods made by Hephaestus, of which Homer relates that Of their own motion they entered the conclave of Gods on Olympus, as if a shuttle should weave of itself, and a plectrum should do its own harp playing.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The only object of liberty is life.

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

God so commanded, and left that command Sole daughter of his voice; the rest, we live law to ourselves, our reason is our law.

So absolute she seems and in herself complete, so well to know her own, that what she wills to do or say, seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

So absolute she seems and in herself complete, so well to know her own, that what she wills to do or say, seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.