Autonomy Quotes

149 quotes by 130 authors

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be… — Christiane Northrup
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in… — Pope John Paul II
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely… — Jessica Valenti
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new… — Irina Bokova
One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun. — Mark Barnes
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but… — Thomas Frank
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and… — Terry Eagleton
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice. — Jack Kevorkian
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving. — Ben Kingsley
If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes… — Annie Lennox
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and… — Anna Quindlen
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit… — Beverly Sills
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face… — Georg Simmel
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime,… — Grace Slick
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's… — Gloria Steinem
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of… — Simone Weil
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. — Evgeny Morozov
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the… — Douglas Rushkoff

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