Quotes About Independence

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Autonomy in making decisions and the control it gives those that have it over their lives is essential, in his view, for a sense of well-being, social engagement, health

Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that's when the magic happens.

she opened the door! nearly six feet tall, and I . . . wanted to found a new country—

One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo

People naturally despise a dependant.

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America.

Yes, Murray Rothbard believed in freedom, and yes, David Koresh believed in God.

I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in one's thinking by a teacher, or a faculty, or a book; but the accent these days is so strong on atomistic intellectual independence that to suggest such a thing is, as I have noted, highly inflammatory.

Though Marx's proletariat may be somewhat better fed than it was a century ago, its individual members have made little if any progress toward that personal liberty and independence on which the dignity of man is founded.

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

She was the captain of her soul

I reckon I'll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life, but thank God I won't ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son of a bitch who's got two cents to buy a stamp.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in a masculine solitude in what might be called the half-acre gunroom of a baronial splendor.

who two thousand years hence will still be throwing triumphantly off the yoke of Latin culture and intelligence of which they were never in any great permanent danger to begin with.

I've done what I could; a man that can live as lone as I have and not know when to quit is a fool.

There was something about his wolflike independence and even courage when the advantage was at least neutral which impressed strangers, as if they got from his latent ravening ferocity not so much a sense of dependability as a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lay with his.

Todo hombre tiene el privilegio de destruirse a sí mismo siempre que no haga daño a nadie, siempre que viva para sí mismo y de sí mismo

La simple idea de su defección le produjo cierto regocijo, como el de un niño que decide hacer novillos.