Quotes About Personal Autonomy

#1. To experience the joy and freedom of love, you must give up your personal autonomy

Timothy Keller

#2. It is crucial for everyone in society--but especially crucial for teachers, parents, and politicians--to realize that social freedom and personal autonomy depend on well-stocked imaginations, for freedom and autonomy depend on having and making choices.

Marshall Gregory

#3. 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.

Thomas Sowell

#4. I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#5. Have we? Have we lost our light, or have we perhaps just glimpsed it for the first time?

Kristin Hannah

#6. The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.

Lesslie Newbigin

#7. The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'

Camille Paglia

#8. Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

Andy Sawford

#9. Success is the consequence of courage, commitment, and competence. You cannot seek a consequence - it has to be created. - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Anisha Motwani

#10. Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship.

Ravi Zacharias

#11. They didn't agree on everything. They didn't share all the same opinions. In fact, there was enormous scope for disagreement, argument, even quarrels. But where it mattered - where the wellsprings of their personalities rose and gave meaning to their lives - they were the same.

David Weber

#12. Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. I can't think of a better way to start my day."
"Get used to it," he murmured, right before he kissed her.

Samantha Chase

#14. Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

Mooji

#15. My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

Jodie Foster

#16. I only debate my equals. All others I teach.

John Henrik Clarke

#17. I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then there were things like the film "The Sorrow And The Pity."

Robert O. Paxton

#18. ... For Weber ... autonomy resides not in the formulation of universal laws but in the value-creating activity unconstrained by any criteria - except in Weber's case, by the criterion of self-consistency.

Rogers Brubaker

#19. If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

Brad Furman

#21. I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself. [ ... ] The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.

Ashley Judd

#22. It's bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don't be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all.

Graham Masterton

#23. Everybody judges from the point of view of his own inadequacy.

Stanley Middleton

#24. 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.

Gloria Steinem