Autonomy Quotes

149 quotes by 130 authors

Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out,… — Georg Simmel
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy. — Gerda Lerner
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea. — R C Sproul
We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind. — Francis Crick
The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast,… — Hermann Broch
I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou… — Bayazid Bastami
Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable… — Les Aspin
A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious… — Julius Evola
Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and… — Henry Giroux
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values. — Keith Ferrazzi
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control… — Judith Lewis Herman
The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to… — Hakim Bey
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to… — Val Plumwood
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous… — Jason Epstein
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. — Jalal Talabani
I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy. — Nigella Lawson
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural… — Paul Hawken
The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy,… — Robert Biswas-Diener
To me it seems pretty obvious that it would be simple to build a business around helping people achieve autonomy, a feeling of competence and… — Tara Hunt

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