Louis Aragon Quotes

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

I just think that people should be in charge of their own bodies.

People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

In England, your life is your life.

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

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

I think that people should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies and to live the life they want to lead.

It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else's rights, or you want the state to deal with everything.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting.

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

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

My body and my will are one.

If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.