Autonomy Quotes

“I am my own only when I am master of myself, instead of being mastered either by sensuality or by anything else.”

“I had a lot of fun with them. After the first one, I didn't get any instructions. I was on my own.”

“I'm not interested in making a picture of something. I'm interested in making something that has a life of its own.”

“They can't make you do anything you don't want to do.”

“Tattoos... It’s a way of saying, ‘I’m in charge of my own body’.”

“To be unable to say no is to be a slave.”

“We do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.”

“It's a good death. It's a good life. It's my own.”

“You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.”

“I am a man, not a puppet.”

“Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.”

“You do what is right for you. Don't let anyone else run your life.”

“Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.”

“The poem holds its ground on its own margin.”

“My life is my life, and I'll live it the way I want to.”

“Don't tell me what to do, and don't tell me what to say.”

“One of the things that I was always happy about was that I made my own decisions.”

“The only protection against foolishness, distortion and plain bunk is the final authority of people's own minds.”

“I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologize, that's my life.”

“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”