People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
I'm concerned with our autonomy. I don't like the idea of people collecting information on me in general, but I particularly don't… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration,… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
AWAL's steadfast commitment to my creative autonomy has been essential in providing me the space and freedom to create music on my… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spirituality. On… — Masao Abe Copy Share Image
“Often when people talk about great teams, they only talk about that transcendent sense of purpose. But while that’s a critical element,… — Jeff Sutherland Copy Share Image
Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't know this about Wu-Tang, it started from a focused mind. I was given total autonomy to do… — Rza Copy Share Image
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive;… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“in flow, the relationship between what a person had to do and what he could do was perfect. The challenge wasn't too… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Why do you live out here? You're a great healer; you could get work in the inner city if you wanted to.… — Hazel Blackthorn Copy Share Image
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
“The course of human history has always moved in the direction of greater freedom. And there’s a reason for that—because it’s in… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
“(1) Autonomy—the desire to direct our own lives (2) Mastery—the urge to make progress and get better at something that matters (3)… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Autonomy is something fundamental that your child needs. (Francoise Dolto said that by age six, a child should be able to do… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Every aspect of the novel is - or should be - an arrow pointed towards its ultimate meaning, or a multiplicity of… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility,… — Robert Biswas-Diener Copy Share Image
Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
“In my moment of greatest fear, I had inadvertently surrendered my power; subsequently, my autonomy was effectively hijacked and held captive.” — Jill C. Acton Copy Share Image