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Quotes About Independence

His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.
~ Curtis Mayfield
A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
For a man's house is his castle.
~ Edward Coke
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me.
~ Madonna Ciccone
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
~ Candice Bergen
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
~ Lysander Spooner
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
~ John Ruskin
I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.
~ Andrew Cohen
You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.
~ Anna Godbersen
For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.
~ Anouk Aimee
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
~ Ayn Rand
I am a man who does not exist for others.
~ Ayn Rand
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.
~ Barbara Jordan
Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.
~ Mae West
There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.
~ Patrick Süskind
I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
~ Rachael Ray
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
~ Haruki Murakami
Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.
~ Heavy D
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
~ Ingrid Michaelson