Autonomy Quotes

• Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Man
  • Idea

• We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Running
  • Industry
  • Software

• It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • World
  • Study
  • Communication

• 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Work
  • Children
  • Feminist Comedy

• If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Song
  • Integrity
  • Selling

• “Autonomy is absolutized in principle and practice. This may lead to the second response, namely, that physicians will accede to whatever the patient or valid surrogate wants. This prompts the physician to transfer all responsibility to patients, family, or friends. This occurs with alarming frequency in the care of infants, the elderly, and demented patients who may be over- or under-treated because their surrogates demand it. Indeed,”

  

  Edmund Pellegrino
  • Practice
  • Patient
  • Autonomy

• Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Chances

• The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

  

  Benjamin Ward Richardson
  • Freedom
  • Autonomy
  • Respecting

• At least Germany and France have recently criticized that the Ukrainian central government has limited certain parts of the autonomy regulations to three years. They were supposed to last permanently.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Certain
  • France
  • Ukrainian

• Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Needs
  • Surrender
  • Togetherness

• We're on the cusp of a revolution, if organizations don't allow more flexibility, more autonomy, they're just going to keep losing (women).

  

  Cary Cooper
  • Revolution
  • Losing
  • Organizations

• The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Men
  • Money
  • True

• The constitutional reform is supposed to give autonomy to eastern Ukraine and to be adopted by the end of 2015. This has not happened, and the year is over. That's not Russia's fault.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Giving
  • Adopted
  • Eastern

• I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Choices
  • Characters
  • Directors

• The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Peace
  • United States
  • Evolution

• God has set certain limitations on Himself by giving to humans and, apparently, to angels a certain amount of autonomy that we can use, if we choose, even to oppose the One who gives it to us.

  

  Charles H. Kraft
  • God
  • Limitations
  • Himself

• I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

  

  Bayazid Bastami
  • Desire
  • Ignorant
  • Free Choice

• I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

  

  George Nolfi
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Purely

• No effort for autonomy or self-rule can succeed if it is approached illegally.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Autonomy
  • Self-rule

• Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society

  

  Dave Hampton
  • Purpose
  • Resilience
  • Autonomy

• ...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

  

  Arno Gruen
  • Evil
  • Humans
  • Development

• Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

  

  Judith Guest
  • Power
  • Lives
  • Run

• 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
  • Individual
  • Social
  • Levels

• I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

  

  Meredith Brooks
  • Artist
  • Parent
  • Dysfunction

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