Autonomous Ego Functions

Famous quotes containing the words autonomous, ego and/or functions:

    Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
    Václav Havel (b. 1936)

    As a lone ant from a broken ant-hill
    from the wreckage of Europe, ego scriptor.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)