Quotes About Independence

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

We don't miss you as you might think. You see, we have made it without you and will always. Take care, and don't ever return to Maasailand.

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

I forbid you to go." "I am not yours to forbid. Comfort your pride with your conquest!

Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.

It is certain that a man who has no need of anyone has many friends: in my own experience I have found this to be very true.

This reactive approach to relationships is inherently individualistic.