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Quotes About Independence

All men are born equally free.
~ Salmon P. Chase
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
~ Halle Berry
If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.
~ Virginia Woolf
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
~ Aristotle
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
~ Ayn Rand
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.
~ Swami Vivekananda
All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
~ Thomas de Quincey
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
~ Thomas Merton
A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.
~ Tony Robbins
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
~ William Cowper
You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!
~ Halldor Laxness
One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
~ Helen Fielding
Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
~ Helen Rowland
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Best is the man who thinks for himself.
~ Hesiod
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
~ Jane Austen
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
~ Jane Powell
A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
~ John Banville
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
~ John Keats
Seriously, I don't care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I'd follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.
~ Kristen Ashley
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
~ Leon Blum
As long as men die, liberty will never parish.
~ Charlie Chaplin