“If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.” IfsMenShouldYearsDoeChoicesFatherTermDecisionSupportShareIndependentFinancePregnancyLiableAutonomousBiological Fathers Author:Karen DeCrow
“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.” SelfStatesNationsPeaceFreedomHeroCitizensRespectIndependentGuaranteesInternalsCitizenshipAutonomousWorld CitizenInternal Peace Author:Vaclav Havel
“Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.” ThinkingTryingMayIndependentSuperiorsAlways TryingAutonomous Book:It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays
“The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial.” PeopleNeedsCultureStrongProcessCompanyStrongerIndependentCorporateRight ThingEntrepreneurialAutonomous Author:Brian Chesky
“'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.” WorldWayHumansEndsActionForcePowerfulTechnologySeriousPeriodsIndependentFundamentalsDistanceThreatPopulationDomainTransformingAutonomousHuman Population Author:Dale Jamieson
“Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.” ChildrenPersonsTwoDifferentSelfReasonParentTeachDisciplineIndependentObedientSubmissiveAutonomous Author:Thomas Szasz
“The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.” ArtRealSpiritualArtistBornExistenceSubjectsCreationPersonalityArt IsBreathsIndependentMysteriousAcquireWorks Of ArtMysticalAnimatedSerendipityAutonomousEnigmatic Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.” SelfNationsCitizensRespectIndependentIndependenceCitizenshipAutonomousWorld CitizenInternal Peace Author:Vaclav Havel