Quotes of: Autonomy Keyword

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous...

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play

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

Jack Kevorkian

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

Thom Mayne

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

Judith Thurman

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Ko...

Sebastian Junger

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

Unless You Become Like This Child

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of t...

Thom Mayne

It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself.

Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

Larry Ellison

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

Annie Lennox

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

Echopraxia

The tension between autonomy and expertise had been, at a basic level, fundamental to the Protestant experience itself from the Reformation forward, as the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, increasing literacy, and vernacular translations ...

Matthew Hedstrom

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

Larry Ellison

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Daniel H. Pink

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

Ben Kingsley

Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Chris Gabrieli

Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.

David Novak

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

Nigella Lawson

Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.

Jason Alexander