youth autonomy Quotes

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.

You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at you and say, 'Well, how can you tell me not to do that when you were there doing it yourself?' Or supposedly were doing it yourself. I think you must let everyone live their life the way they have to.

Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of 'Westernisation.'

In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.

I remember my dad bought me my first phone when I finished school. I was a fresher in college, and at that time, it was mainly to keep a track of what I was doing and where I was going.

Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

My mom wouldn't let me dye my hair for the longest time.

Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

I used to go to London by myself when I was 16. I think I got it from my mom. My mom was the type to just always just go off somewhere, wherever. She's a goer.

When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say 'on my own', but I was probably with my oldest sister Sarah, and she would have been 13 or 14 at the time, so she'd have been walking us around. But I got to go places and meet people, and was trusted a lot, without a doubt.

I feel like I should be able to be 18 and have the friends that I choose and to have fun and live my life.

As parents, we must value the decisions of our kids even though they are young. If they say no to something even if we force them, we must respect their decision.

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

You’ve never been a teenager, sweetie. You know what’s best for you.

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.

My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.