Autonomy Quote by Herbert Marcuse

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

— Joycelyn Elders

Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“A person raised in a healthy family is equipped to live a confident and independent life; someone from an unhealthy family is filled with…

— Christina Enevoldsen

When a person attempts to control someone else's life, it only reflects the lack of control they have on their own.

— Anonymous

Many mammals and birds have systems for strong self-control, and it is not difficult to see why such systems were advantageous and were selected…

— Patricia Churchland

“True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile dependence.”

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans…

— Satoshi Kanazawa

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to…

— Robert Foster Bennett

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than…

— Herbert Marcuse

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

— John Dewey

“Autonomy is absolutized in principle and practice. This may lead to the second response, namely, that physicians will accede to whatever the patient or…

— Edmund D. Pellegrino

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing,…

— Mahatma Gandhi