Quotes About Independence

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

I'd always cared extremely little for public opinion because I was always obsessed with my own opinion and hence had no time at all for the public's.

Sometimes we need someone, sometimes no one, and sometimes we need someone and no one.

Bir insana, hiç kimseyle olmad???m?z gibi baÄŸl? olmak için, yan yana olmam?z gerekmez.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Now we know, as she does, that she can carry on, that discovering that men can't be counted on doesn't mean the world ends, that she's a whole person.

we should abolish the Fed altogether, since in the view of these economists it is entirely superfluous to a market economy.

Active Listening provides parents with a way of moving in and offering to help the child define the problem for herself, and starting up the process of problem-solving within the child.

Much of the rebellion of today's adolescents can be attributed to parents and other adults who put pressure on them to modify behavior that the kids feel is their own business. Children do not rebel against adults—they rebel against adults' attempts to take away their freedom.

You have created a life, now let the child have it. Let him decide what he wants to do with the life you gave him

Parents who satisfy their own needs through independent productive effort not only accept themselves but also needn't seek gratification of their needs from the way their children behave. They don't need their children to turn out in a particular way. People with high self-esteem, resting on a firm foundation of their own independent achievement, are more accepting of their children and the way they behave.

An accepting parent is willing to let a child develop his own "program" for life; a less accepting parent feels a need to program the child's life for him.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas H. Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. But since a woman can't show off in that way by herself, I shan't marry—at least not yet.

I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles

I can't bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!

I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

Why should we faint, and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die?

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women do when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

he turned to go his own way, and hardly knew he loved her still.