Quotes about Autonomy
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
— Robert Frost
I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.
— Ayn Rand
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
— CS Lewis
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
— Viktor E. Frankl
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
— Elie Wiesel
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
— Abraham Lincoln
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
— CS Lewis
When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
— Cormac McCarthy