This objective of getting what we want from other people-or getting them to do what we want them to do-threatens the autonomy… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
An ethic that emphasizes relationship and community can be concerned with protecting the individual's interests, but always with an eye to trying… — David Wong Copy Share Image
In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“It takes a great personal audacity to question the status quo, to take exception to it, to redefine it, and, ultimately, decide… — Becky Vollmer Copy Share Image
“The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It… — John Holloway Copy Share Image
“In the United States, our concept of liberty has changed drastically from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first century. The change has… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the guardian of individual autonomy, a shield that allows each person to shape their own beliefs and values independent… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can… — Bobbi Gibb Copy Share Image
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
“I thought of Bobby, of the last look he had given me, and at that moment I understood one of the differences… — Jaime Manrique Copy Share Image
“When we set boundaries, we express self-preservation and acknowledge mutual respect and autonomy. Boundaries can help us navigate balance, provide stable grounds… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“The anarch is (I am simplifying) on the side of gold: it fascinates him, like everything that eludes society. Gold has its… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“One aim of my field is to relativize the images possessed by individuals, discover in these images the factors universal to all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“In that case,” Bitsy said, trotting busily alongside, “there’s no point in enslaving you through these unnecessarily complex means. Were I to… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The main joy I have in owning or being a part of my own label is the platform I've created to really… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It was outrageous that [Donald Trump] would be advocating [that] women who exercise their constitutional right and have autonomy over their healthcare… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Freedom is essential to the pursuit of happiness. Freedom is essential to artistic evolution and expression. Freedom is essential to the expansion… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image