Autonomy Quote by Thomas Frank

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

— Judith Guest

Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is…

— Thomas Szasz

“The idea of autonomy denies that we are born into a world that existed prior to us. It posits an essential aloneness; an autonomous…

— Matthew B. Crawford

OK, look, I just - I think that - I think everyone underestimates the power of an autonomy of every individual to make their…

— Emily Compagno

“The value of autonomy … lies in the scheme of responsibility it creates: autonomy makes each of us responsible for shaping his own life according…

— Atul Gawande

“Autonomy is about being self-governing: being able to make decisions based on your own (and your family’s own) best interests. I had no idea…

— Anna Newell Jones

Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their…

— Gerda Lerner

Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of…

— Alison Assiter

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which…

— Alanis Morissette

Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to…

— Daniel H. Pink

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

— Robert Sapolsky

The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

— R. C. Sproul