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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. -- Denis Waitley
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. -- Simone Weil
The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants. -- Jack Kevorkian
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. -- Thomas Frank
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. -- Gloria Steinem
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. -- Thom Mayne
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. -- Beverly Sills
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. -- Georg Simmel
Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything. -- Gabor Mate
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving. -- Ben Kingsley
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high. -- Larry Ellison
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice. -- Jack Kevorkian
I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy. -- Nigella Lawson
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. -- David Riesman
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing. -- Bill Crawford
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
The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan. -- William Deresiewicz
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. -- Anna Quindlen
Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back. -- Les Aspin
First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized. -- Gabrielle Reece
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
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. -- Thom Mayne
Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility. -- Alison Assiter
Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be. -- Herbert Marcuse
I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens. -- Grover Norquist
Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results. -- Thomas Szasz
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. -- Thom Mayne
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. -- Thom Mayne
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. -- Jalal Talabani
Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me. -- Sundar Pichai
I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy. -- Roxane Gay
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. -- David Riesman
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
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
I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family. -- Jennifer Ehle
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact. -- Emile Durkheim
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational. -- Terry Eagleton
The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century. -- Martin Jacques
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care. -- Ami Bera
I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical. -- Daniel H. Pink
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. -- Carrie Brownstein
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
The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers. -- Daniel H. Pink
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor. -- Roxane Gay
Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny. -- Jack Provonsha
Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible. -- Jean Piaget
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. -- Daniel H. Pink
People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy. -- Stan Shih
I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin. -- Mark Driscoll
I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy. -- Annie Lennox
The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose! -- Daniel H. Pink
The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy. -- Marshall Gregory
The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness. -- Peter Watts
There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility. -- Jaron Lanier
Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process. -- Gyorgy Konrad
It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. -- Esther Perel
It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy. -- Hans Tietmeyer
I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions. -- Narendra Modi
One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun. -- Mark Barnes
Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society -- Dave Hampton
There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned. -- Monica Johnson
Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. -- Esther Perel
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. -- Jean Piaget
Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit. -- Pablo Neruda
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings. -- Arno Gruen
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. -- Evgeny Morozov
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. -- Harold Bloom
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy. -- Gerda Lerner
There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control. -- Herbert Marcuse
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery. -- Anne Truitt
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
We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind. -- Francis Crick
Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality. -- Mia Maestro
I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people. -- Donalyn Miller
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
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values. -- Keith Ferrazzi
Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone. -- David Novak
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy. -- Suzanne La Follette
Felicity grimaced in agreement"No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one's butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy. -- Gail Carriger
Felicity grimaced in agreement. "No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one's butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy. -- Gail Carriger
If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot. -- Christiane Northrup
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven. -- Desmond Tutu
The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies. -- James C. Scott
The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike. -- Mohamed El-Erian
The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging. -- Robert Biswas-Diener
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
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such. -- Simone Weil
And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown's most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career. -- Judith Thurman
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
First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
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
To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off. -- Tracy Anne Warren
The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language. -- Samuel P. Huntington
The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution. -- Evo Morales
The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy. -- Michael Kimmel
We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements. -- David Willetts
The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual. -- Hakim Bey
There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home. -- Betty Friedan
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
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
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
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work -- Sheryl WuDunn
Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency. -- Jonathan Turley
The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good. -- Pope Francis
Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic history there have been well over two thousand women jurists. -- Khaled Abou El Fadl
YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business. -- Salar Kamangar
For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe. -- Julio Cortazar
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical. -- Thomas Merton
I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy. -- David Rakoff
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
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts. -- Pope John Paul II
I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen. -- Steven Soderbergh
A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety. -- Warren Farrell

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