Quotes about Autonomy

Crisis of the will. When a darkened mind chooses to remain in darkness, no one is to blame but the individual making that choice.

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

Look to yourself. You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. Seek your own land. You young and a woman and there's serious limitation in both, but you are a person too. Don't let Lenore or some trifling boyfriend and certainly no devil doctor decide who you are. That's slavery. Somewhere inside you is that free person I'm talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone. 'This place being what?' 'This place being South Africa

People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.