#autonomy

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#autonomy #fact #good #i #like

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#autonomy #i #integrity #keep #tried

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

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

— Jalal Talabani

#confederacy #could #federal #independence #mean

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#autonomy #bahrain #iraq #iraq-war #kurdish-people

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#human-rights #limitations #personal-autonomy #personal-responsibility #freedom

Today there is a deep longing in our culture to reconnect to this spiritual world, for we are not whole without it. But our longing cannot be satisfied by embracing religious belief alone, no matter how emotional the embrace, for our longing is at root a hunger and thirst for the experience of interior realities. If, however, we are to forge a new relationship to the invisible world of spirit based on experience, what will distinguish it from the past is the modern necessity that it be based on our own autonomy as free individuals, able to think, decide, and act for ourselves. ↗

— Jeremy Nadler

#egypt #nature #religion #spirituality #experience

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#complacency #ethics #independence #politics #proactivity