Autonomy Quote by Suzanne La Follette

“It's tough to get out of one's inherited imbecilic culture, and a thus inherited or endowed lunatic belief system. A freethinker must overcome every…

— Fakeer Ishavardas

“It is so much easier to throw oneself into social and political activity than to understand life as a whole; to be associated with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold…

— Robert H. Jackson

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society…

— Charles Colson

“Human autonomy is the great idolatrous first principle of the modern secular worldview.”

— Albert Mohler

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to…

— Anonymous

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The neutralizer to fear is self belief.

— Mark Bouris

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

— Douglas Murray

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which…

— R. R. Reno

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

— Mahatma Gandhi