Quotes About Independence

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.