Quotes about Autonomy

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God.

I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice.

We can choose not to allow the choices and actions of someone else to dictate our own.

Outside influences are not responsible for where you are mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, or financially. You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.