Quotes about Autonomy

Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I don't write about love because it makes for easy, passive heroes. I write about how love makes my characters more autonomous, more self-possessed, more opinionated and powerful. I write about characters who pursue relationships that make them the people they want to become. I write about love as a superpower.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.