Quotes about Autonomy
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.
— Alexander Hamilton
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
— Ayn Rand
I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
— Og Mandino
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
— William James
We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
— Joyce Meyer
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.
— Gregory Boyd
those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
— William Paul Young
I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
— William Law
God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.
— Martin Luther
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.
— Pope John Paul II
We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'
— Oprah Winfrey