Quotes About Independence

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Free men stick their necks out.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

I do not choose to be a common man.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.