Quotes about Autonomy
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
— Will Rogers
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
— Oscar Wilde
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
— James Madison
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
— Roger Williams
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
— Walt Disney
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
— Mortimer Adler
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
— RC Sproul
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
— RC Sproul
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
— Napoleon Hill
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
— Abraham Lincoln
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
— John Quincy Adams