Independence Quotes

Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.It might ...

Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly...Where be bonds to bind the free?All ...

While the Zionists try to make the rest of the World believe that the national consciousness of the ...

I help those who can help themselves.

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only a...

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowar...

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste...

True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only be...

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have no...

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assert...

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing...

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedo...

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Notice how they’ll accept anything except a man who stands alone. They recognize him at once...There...

Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon....

Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independenc...

Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or...

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than i...

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, sinc...

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought...

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan yo...

Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy ...

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

there’s nothing todiscussthere’s nothing torememberthere’s nothing toforgetit’s sadand it’s notsadse...

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to...

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

St. John,” I said, “I think you are al­most wicked to talk so. I am dis­posed to be as con­tent as a...

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrif...

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I ...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I...

There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we t...

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of m...

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking f...

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by th...

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why n...

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through...

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point ...

It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can alw...

…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts a...

My soul, be satisfied with flowers,With fruit, with weeds even; but gather themIn the one garden you...

As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of u...

This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ...

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robo...

Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can...

How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards wo...

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when ...

I value my ownindependence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than thatof having anot...

Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yours...

But he could never be a made guy himself because of his tainted blood, some Sunset Park Puerto Rican...

I’ll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, ...

It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...

When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never h...

It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on ...

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate n...

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with depende...

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever a...

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact w...

HIGGINS [sitting down beside her] Rubbish! you shall marry an ambassador. You shall marry the Govern...

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every...

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

The only path of escape he could conceive as yet for Lady Harman lay through the chivalry of some ot...

He perceived too in these still hours how little he had understood her hitherto. He had been blinded...

This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his con...

...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen...

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though th...

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world hav...

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a ...

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for t...

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi...

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is bu...

The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On n...

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful co...

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is th...

Freedom is alone the unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; an...

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right...

Because I am for them, Commander, because their ancestors stood up to that Nazi, Bligh, just like I ...

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...