150 Quotes About Autonomy
- Author Pat Califia
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S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off'…
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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Every person intuitively seeks personal independence, the ability to exercise autonomy over the course that his or her life takes.
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- Author Suzanne Keys
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Person-centred counselling may be thought of as 'not enough'. In my experience it is. It allows for self-determination through an acknowledgement of a person's human rights.
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- Author Krysten Hill
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Never your bird, never finchnever graceful feathered thing.
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- Author Thomas Stephen Szasz
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The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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- Author Ani DiFranco
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I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.
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- Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.
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- Author John Holloway
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The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building.
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- Author Ernst Jünger
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The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again. During such recesses, the anarch measures his own strength and autonomy.
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