Autonomy Quotes

Autonomy Quote of the day

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.

Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

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

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious.

The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

The constitutional reform is supposed to give autonomy to eastern Ukraine and to be adopted by the end of 2015. This has not happened, and the year is over. That's not Russia's fault.

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

But I'm more scared of not writing.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.