Quotes about Autonomy
Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
— Abraham Lincoln
We can of course shake off the burden which is laid upon us, but only find that we have a still heavier burden to carry — a yoke of our own choosing, the yoke of our self.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
— Dolly Parton
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
— Pope John Paul II
If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.
— Joel Osteen
There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.
— Jack Canfield
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
— Charles Stanley
I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.
— Britney Spears
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
— Elbert Hubbard