Autonomy Quotes

"None but ourselves can free our minds." "Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise." "7: The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." "Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." "No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent" "It is only in our decisions that we are important." "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another" "You have to be okay with the fact that sometimes you’re all you have." "Independence is happiness." "You draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are." "I belong to nobody, hope it doesn't bother you" "When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me, is me." "The question isn't what do we want to know about people, it's what do people want to tell about themselves." "To find yourself, think for yourself" "A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself" "Lack of freedom is the biggest outlaw" "We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose" "As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe you don't move" "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "I'm very independent."