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autonomy
«You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.»
«The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.»
Author: David Riesman
| About:
Equality,
Freedom,
Men
| Keywords:
autonomy, mislead, misleading, seeking
«Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.»
Author: Herbert Marcuse
| Keywords:
aggressive, asserted, asserts, audiences, automobile, autonomy, communicate, gun, handle, Mass, self-determination, tools
«A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.»
«Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
autonomy, go to sleep, lights-out, lights, place of birth, reflects, rooms, starve, treatment
«While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrogation, autonomy, cultural, norm, norms, plea, rationalism, stifle, The Social
«Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.»
«Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, automation, autonomy, educational, electric, electric fire, electric light, employment, grouped, latent, patterns, supplied, supplied with, warmth