Autonomous Quotes

• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Respect, Independent, Self

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Good Man, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.185, Verso

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• Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Today, Wealth, Existence

  Jeremy Rifkin (1992). “Biosphere politics: a cultural odyssey from the middle ages to the new age”, HarperCollins

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• In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

  Roman Jakobson

  Symbolism, Sound, Language

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• The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

  Alexander Kluge

  Art, Decision, Television

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• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

  Vaclav Havel

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Fighting, Israel, People

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2003.

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• There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

  Les Aspin

  Sympathy, Hussein, Administration

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• This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

  Louis A. Johnson

  America, Waste, Defense

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• In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

  Michael Welch

  School, Boston, Gone

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• Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

  Michael Palin

  Lying, Government, Holy Grail

  "Fictional character: Dennis". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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• I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

  Graham Chapman

  Mean, Holy Grail, Peasants

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• All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

  Mitch Daniels

  People, Liberty, Pearls

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

  Graham Chapman

  Lying, Government, Holy Grail

  "Fictional character: Dennis". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1975.

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• The white race is the cancer of human history.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Race, White

  "What's Happening in America" (1966)

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• Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Dog, Men, Choices

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• God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Evil, Justice, Doe

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• Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Leader, Succeed

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• The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Self, Essence, Culture

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• Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

  Wendell Berry

  Independent, Thinking, Always Trying

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

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• There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

  David Buss

  Agents, Influence, Economics

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• Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.

  Theda Skocpol

  Philosophy, Political, Action

  Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures, Joint Committee on Latin American Studies (1985). “Bringing the State Back In”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Art, Real

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• With autonomous cars, you're gonna see more consolidation. Once we have transport modules, you order off the phone and brands won't matter anymore. When brands don't matter, the auto industry ends. It's got another 20 years.

  Bob Lutz

  Phones, Order, Years

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God (which, we must note, was addressed specifically to perennial problems in political morality), then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) — the standard of self-law or autonomy.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Men, Self, Expression

  "By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today".

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