Quotes about Autonomy

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

We must not be dependent on the judgment of the world or the flesh; in fact, we must not be dependent on the judgment even of our own hearts regarding ourselves.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

aim for "low control, high accountability

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Proverbs 25:28 says, "Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control." In other words, if we do not control our own lives from the inside, somebody else will control them from the outside.

There is truly no greater burden than freedom, no heavier load than liberty.