He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt.

~ Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff Agency Self Determination

You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it.

~ Erin Bow

Erin Bow Hostages Self Determination

This should be one of the basic attitudes—not to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to live it that way, that is his business. Who are you even to have an opinion about it? Even to have an opinion means that you are ready to interfere, you have already interfered.

~ Osho

Osho Interference Nonaggression Opinion Privacy Self Determination

I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.

~ William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Resilience Self Determination

Person-centred counselling may be thought of as 'not enough'. In my experience it is. It allows for self-determination through an acknowledgement of a person's human rights.

~ Suzanne Keys

Suzanne Keys Autonomy Human Rights Empowerment Person Centred Self Determination

Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic psychology argues for liberation, more open decision-making and a sharing of power and control.

~ Keith Tudor

Keith Tudor Freedom Freedom Of Expression Politics Self Determination

Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one who could coax sugar from a lemon. Hers was the frontal attack with no inhibitions. She told the Nazis you could not trust Hitler, and they let her go. In the days of chaperones, she hitch-hiked a ride on a French destroyer along the coast of Crete; 'All quite proper, I had my cook with me,' she explained.

~ Mary Allsebrook

Mary Allsebrook Archaeologists Crete France Harriet Boyd Hawes Nazis Self Determination Self Preservation Victorian Era Women S History

The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?

~ Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon Self Determination Snark

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

~ Penn Jillette

Penn Jillette Bodies Self Determination

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

~ Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Self Determination

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

~ Jalal Talabani

Jalal Talabani Mean Self Determination