It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy. — Hans Tietmeyer Copy Share Image
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“The freedom of the man of God has nothing to do with autonomy … and … does not stand opposed to submission to God” — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Autonomous people assert themselves against the status quo. They don't accept the prevailing opinion just because it's the one given to them.… — Maria Brito Copy Share Image
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big… — Bob Anderson Copy Share Image
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
At least Germany and France have recently criticized that the Ukrainian central government has limited certain parts of the autonomy regulations to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to… — Jennifer Ehle Copy Share Image
“It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The value of autonomy … lies in the scheme of responsibility it creates: autonomy makes each of us responsible for shaping his own… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“With their concern for personal autonomy and individual freedom, anarchists more than any other socialists are aware of the inhumanity of both… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't have any complaints about homosexuals being married in a civil ceremony. But I don't think that the government ought to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
At the point when I switched from indoor to beach I had been playing indoor for 12 years. And, to be honest,… — Kerri Walsh Copy Share Image
If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
“We fight for autonomy over so many areas of our lives - for decency and democracy and freedom, for suffrage, for the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Kurds are going to have to strike a bargain with Bashar Assad that will keep them in the Syrian state and under… — Joshua Landis Copy Share Image
Secrecy fuels erotic intensity because it makes you feel like you're doing something that is entirely yours. It gives you the sense… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Autonomy is the desire to steer our own ship. Mastery is the desire to steer it well. And purpose is the need… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
“A better business model (that expands your autonomy and availability) is the best Christmas present you can gift your family this year.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when… — Elizabeth Grosz Copy Share Image
I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself. [...]… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image