Quotes About Independence

No free man needs a God; but was I free?

Nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a Base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled.

I will never go back. For the simple reason that all the Russia I need, after all, is with me--always with me. Her literature, her language, my own Russian childhood. I will never return, I will never surrender.

To the Winds, Victor was a problem child insofar as he refused to be one.

Freedom for the moment is everything

Ich weiß nicht, ob jemals festgestellt wurde, daß ein Hauptmerkmal des Lebens die Separatheit ist. Wenn uns keine Fleischesschicht umhüllt, sterben wir. Der Mensch existiert nur in dem Maße, in dem er von seiner Umwelt abgesondert ist.

Non può esservi alcuna sottomissione – perché il fatto stesso che parliamo di questi argomenti indica che vi è curiosità, e la curiosità è insubordinazione nella forma più pura.

Readers are born free and ought to remain free.

Zij kon zich niet overgeven aan een plan dat ze niet zelf had gemaakt, aan een koers die een ander voor haar bepaalt.

Freedom from stress does not necessarily involve giving up anything, but rather being able to let go of anything, when necessary, and know that one will still be all right. It comes from being more independent—not necessarily more solitary, but more reliant on one's own inner resources for stability.

We will become better learners and more independent thinkers.

Marry an outdoors woman. That way, if you have to throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still survive.

There are some very stupid men in the capitals of the Western World--the more stupid because they think they are so wise. It would seem to me that almost anybody would know by now that colored peoples do not like to be ruled by outside forces, Jim Crowed, segregated, told what to do by aliens, and in general kicked around.

Bartender, tell this man to vacate my person.

When a woman wants to get ahead, she cannot tie a millstone to her feet. Most men is millstones.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now.

Do I look like I need a fucking group hug?