Quotes About Independence

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Have the man at the station put the air in the tires. I did it once myself. Have you ever seen a car with a limp?

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

When is man strong until he feels alone?

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.