#autonomy

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

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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#adult #autonomy #choice #competent #her

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

#advice #always #autonomy #best #contrary

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#autonomy #possibility #prepared #risk #starving

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

#based #desire #first #foremost #georgia

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

#autonomy #beyond #culture #environmental #function

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

#claim #culture #deepest #derive #existence

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#confederacy #could #federal #independence #mean

The anarch is (I am simplifying) on the side of gold: it fascinates him, like everything that eludes society. Gold has its own immeasurable might. It need only show itself, and society with its law and order is in jeopardy. The anarch is on the side of gold : this is not to be construed as a lust for gold. He recognizes gold as the central and immobile power. He loves it, not like Cortez, but like Montezuma, not like Pizarro but like Atahualpa .... ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#autonomy #gold #society #love

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'… ↗

— Pat Califia

#bdsm #bodies #imagination