Autonomy Quotes

“If a young woman is pregnant and wants to have an abortion, that's her choice. That's her body.”

“My case was about one woman's choice.”

“This is not just about abortion. It's about who has the power to decide your future, you or the government.”

“I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.”

“Autonomy is not the same as freedom... Autonomy is the capacity to choose, whereas freedom is the absence of external constraint.”

“My secret's mine, and I won't tell.”

“If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.”

“We are the native people now whose tacit claims to self-determination have vanished from the maps of our own lives.”

“I don't like to be told what to do.”

“Autonomy is a proposal, it is a plan. It is not self-determination.”

“I have to have a creative role; I can't just be a string puppet.”

“When you're a stand-up, you're the writer, you're the director, you're the producer, you're the actor. You're the everything.”

“After 12 years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes.”

“I claim the right to think for myself.”

“I shall be my own interpreter of the laws of nations.”

“The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.”

“What is essential is to realize that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power.”

“I think it is a right to have a good death, as much as it is a right to have a good life.”

“I'm not a person who has people tell me what to do. I'm a person who does what I want to do.”

“I have always done what I wanted to do.”