Quotes About Independence

al hombre se le puede arrebatar todo, salvo una cosa: la libertad humana —la libre elección de la acción personal ante las circunstancias

But what about human liberty? Is there no spiritual freedom in regard to behavior and reaction to any given surroundings?

Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.

The choices humans makes should be active rather than passive. In making personal choices we affirm our autonomy. A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, Frankl writes, bbut man is ultimately self determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment - he has made of himself..

Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining.

My interest does not lie in raising parrots that just rehash "their master's voice," but rather in passing the torch to "independent and inventive, innovative and creative spirits.

Der er et vist mål af frihed til enhver, selv om det kun gælder valget af hårfarve.

H]uman freedom implies man's capacity to detach himself from himself.

A human being is a deciding being.

M]an is by no means a product of inheritance and environment. Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end education is just education towards the ability to decide.

The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

instead of fighting the system, it was often better to say yes and then go off and do whatever you thought was best.

Spending the last several years alone had allowed her to grow in strength. Independence and self-reliance were great things. The best part about them was that the only person who could let you down was yourself.

No one would acknowledge that they owed America a debt—not the other way around.

Never sit at a table you can't walk away from." -Joss Whedon

Women have become trained to be lone soldiers online, knowing that to send up a signal flare for help is more likely to attract enemies than allies.

The only advice … that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure