Quotes about Autonomy
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
- Viktor E. Frankl
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
- Elie Wiesel
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
- Abraham Lincoln
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
- CS Lewis
When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
- Cormac McCarthy
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
- Eleanor Roosevelt