150 Quotes About Autonomy
- Author Robert Louis Stevenson
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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- Author Giovanna Fletcher
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You are loved. You are yours. Not mine, not theirs. Remember that.
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- Author Angela Carter
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Excretion is his first concrete production and, through it, the child gains his first experience of labour relations. He may reserve the right to go on excremental strike or to engage in a form of faecal offensive. The excremental faculty is a manipulative device and to be baulked of the free control of it is to be deprived of the first, most elementary, expression of autonomy.
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- Author Richard Tarnas
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the achievement of human autonomy has been paid for by the experience of human alienation.
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- Author Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
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Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.
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- Author A.E. Samaan
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Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty.
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- Author Cass R. Sunstein
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People are more likely to object to nudges that appeal to unconscious or subconscious processes.
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- Author Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
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The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.
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- Author Oliver Sensen
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the passage on dignity is an addendum to the formula of autonomy: ‘act only so that the will could regard itself as at the same time giving universal law through its maxim’ (G IV 434). Kant raises the question of why a morally good being abides by this formula. His answer (in brief) is because morality has an elevated worth (i.e. only moral dictates are categorical).
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