Autonomy Quotes

149 quotes by 130 authors

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and… — Carrie Brownstein
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with… — Marshall McLuhan
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. — David Riesman
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. — Denis Waitley
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In… — Thomas Merton
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few.… — Pope Francis
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied… — Natalie Zemon Davis
The unity of the human race, as envisaged by BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races, creeds and classes… — Shoghi Effendi
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom
I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the next 25 years. We want… — Grover Norquist
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with… — Isaac Asimov
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify… — Herbert Marcuse
The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area… — Henry Cloud
But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right… — Robert L. Reymond
French parents are very concerned about their kids. They know about pedophiles, allergies, and choking hazards. They take reasonable precautions. But they aren't panicked about… — Pamela Druckerman
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality… — Jonathan Haidt
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking… — Pope Francis
In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with… — Bell Hooks
The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical… — Camille Paglia

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