Autonomous Quotes

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Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense,Â sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each otherâ€™s company even for thinking (â€œfreedom of… — Hannah
When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people… — Nafis Sadik
As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people… — George Will
Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person. — David Maister
The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small. — Joe Torre
The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system. — Nelson Mandela
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard… — Brooks Atkinson
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for. — Abraham Maslow
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free… — Dave Hickey
The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence… — Vaclav Havel
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas
Mine is not an autonomous imagination. — Jay McInerney
I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take… — Grant-Lee Phillips
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of… — Vaclav Havel
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that… — John Walford
A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means… — St. Vincent
The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way… — Gerhard Richter
The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors,… — Alexander Kluge

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