Autonomous Quotes

86 quotes by 80 authors

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when… — Stanley Milgram
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved… — Clement Greenberg
While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is… — Richard R. Nelson
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional… — Charles Krauthammer
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian. — Elizabeth Gilbert
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.… — Mitch Daniels
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These… — Jurgen Habermas
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the… — Vaclav Havel
My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars. — Elon Musk
No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands.… — Douglas Rushkoff
Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them.… — Thomas Szasz
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are… — Cormac McCarthy
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must… — Oliver Sacks
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous… — Wassily Kandinsky
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed… — Greg L. Bahnsen
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the… — Francis Schaeffer
The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions… — Susanne Katherina Langer
That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run… — Paul Tournier
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they… — Les Aspin
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large… — Leon Krier

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