Quotes About Independence

Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.

the federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.