Autonomous Living Quotes

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on the state, materially and spiritually. We should not look to the state to provide us financially or psychologically. Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens.

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.

A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.