Autonomy Quotes

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way." "Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise." "Decentralization is not just a buzzword; it's a commitment to ensuring that no single entity has control" "The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself" "You draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are." "I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves" "I'm very independent." "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe you don't move" "We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose" "Lack of freedom is the biggest outlaw" "A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself" "To find yourself, think for yourself" "The question isn't what do we want to know about people, it's what do people want to tell about themselves." "None but ourselves can free our minds." "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." "Independence is happiness." "You have to be okay with the fact that sometimes you’re all you have." "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another"