Autonomy Quotes - Page 7

• As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.

  Pope Francis

  Government, Long, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium Of the Holy Father Francis". Apostolic Exhortation, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

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• In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

  Bell Hooks

  Confused, Keeping Secrets, Space

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• The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'

  Camille Paglia

  Struggle, Law, Identity

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.37, Canongate Books

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• It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek to undermine their independence in every way possible. With seductive 'entitlements' like guaranteed retirement, health care, nutrition, education, and jobs, liberals attempt to lure the middle class into dependence on the state. But when it comes to those who are truly incompetent, those whose mental afflictions render them unable to manage their lives at all, liberals are suddenly transformed into absolutists for personal autonomy.

  Mona Charen

  Retirement, Jobs, Caring

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• I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

  Bobbi Gibb

  Running, Boys, Ideas

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• In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

  Jack Nicholson

  Disappointment, Real, World

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• Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own

  Elizabeth Grosz

  Art, Gains, Chaos

  Elizabeth Grosz (2012). “Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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

  Dave Hampton

  Jobs, Skills, Unity

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• In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but they have their own autonomy, a personality that is often a mystery to me.

  Dacia Maraini

  Character, Personality, Mystery

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

  Robert Pozen

  People, Way, Firsts

  "How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2013.

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• The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Availability, People

  1970 TheMyth of theMachine.

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• Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.

  Sally Jenkins

  Sports, Running, College

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• I've been friends with the guys in Radiohead for a lot of years, and I watch the way those guys work with incredible envy. Because whatever the slings and arrows of dealing with the record business, at the end of the day, they have total creative autonomy. They don't need a lot to do what they do, and Thom [Yorke] and Jonny [Greenwood] and the guys have their own joint in their hometown.

  Edward Norton

  Years, Arrows, Envy

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• 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

  Art, Dysfunction, Joy

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• You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Eye, Yoke

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• It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

  Alice Miller

  Summer, Running, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Responsibility, Adults

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.

  George Will

  Believe, Erosion, People

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• It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Vanity, Personality

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver, p. 62, 1948.

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• 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, Boxes

  "Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.

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• 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

  Dog, Song, Baby

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Men, Years

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• Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Teacher, Communication, School

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.15, PuddleDancer Press

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• Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.

  Georg Simmel

  Fashion, Support, Feelings

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• Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

  Gerda Lerner

  Determination, Self, People

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