Quotes About Independence

Strong students, like strong writers, will find the sustenance they must have. And strong students, like strong writers, will rise in the most unexpected places and times, to wrestle with the internalized violence pressed upon them by their teachers and precursors.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Government just cannot govern well without reliable independent reporting and criticism. No intelligence system, no bureaucracy, can offer the information provided by free competitive reporting; the cleverest agents of the secret police state are inferior to the plodding reporter of the democracy.

For as long as you wait for them to make the first move, you will continue to be plagued by the hidden resentments you carry inside.

Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends they go because they can't think of anything else to do they go because their parents want them to and sometimes because their parents don't want them to they go to find themselves, or to find a husband, or to get away from home, and sometimes even to find out about the world in which they live.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

Stan, don't let them tell you what to do!

The New Yorker will not be edited for the old lady from Dubuque.

In our nation's popular culture, country life in the 1800s has often been portrayed as an idyllic experience, one that cultivated such quintessentially American values as self-reliance, rugged independence, a reverence for the land, a belief in the importance of hard work and self-sacrifice, and a willingness to fight when necessary for home, family, and community.

Well, I think there is always a conflict between the sexes. Women want to dominate men, but men shouldn't let them do that.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free.

I [Topsy] 'spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Liberty! -- Electric word!

To him, it is the right of a man to be a man, and not a brute; the right to call the wife of his bosom his wife, and to protect her from lawless violence; the right to protect and educate his child; the right to have a home of his own, a religion of his own, a character of his own, unsubject to the will of another.

If it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil.

It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do

I'll be free, or I'll die.

I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.

I did my MA on Elizabethan women who demanded to choose their husbands. It really annoys me, that it's basically the same thing today. Who are we going to end up with? [...] It's a race,and everyone else is on the tracks and I'm at the wrong venue, with the wrong shoes on

The more we carve out a clear and separate "I," the more we can experience and enjoy both intimacy and aloneness.

Ama eski modelde Sandra tüm gücünü Larry'i deÄŸiÅŸtirmeye yöneltmiÅŸ olduÄŸu için kendi ba??na hareket edip seçim yapma gücünü kullanam?yordu -ki bu da asl?nda, sahip olduÄŸumuz tek güçtür.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty."