Quotes About Independence

When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

Girls can do anything these days.

Listen, nitwit, what good will it do you to know whether I am sincere or insincere? What does this have to do with whether or not my thoughts are right? I can utter a soaring truth insincerely and say the stupidest thing sincerely. Learn to judge the thought independently of who says it or how.

Nie ufa?em wiarom, doktrynom, ideologiom, instytucjom. Mog?em wi?c oprze? si? tylko na sobie. Ale przecie? by?em Polakiem, urobionym przez polsko??, ?yj?cym w Polsce. No wi?c trzeba mi by?o poszuka? mojego ja g??biej, tam gdzie ono ju? nie by?o polskie, a po prostu cz?owiecze.

Mnie Bóg, w ?yciu moim, nigdy nie byÅ' potrzebny - od najwczeÅ›niejszego dzieciÅ"stwa, ani przez pi?? minut - byÅ'em zawsze samowystarczalny. / I have never in my life needed God - from the infancy, since I was 5, I was self-sufficient. (Dziennik 1956, XVIII Niedziela)

The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers!

My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to serve it. I cultivate just one politics: my own. I am a separate state.

Yes, but I wasn't running around asking other people how to do it.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

I always took to anything that required solitude...it kept me from having to deal with other humans who, for no explainable reason, I didn't like nor trust.

And then I started to think, that the less I know about what people think of my work, the better off I am.

All of you cowboys, fight for your land.

Wherever you go, said the Patriarch, I'm convinced you'll come to no good. So remember, when you get into trouble, I absolutely forbid you to say that you are my disciple.

The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. You must follow your own path. that is the way.

Una no aprende a ser puta en los bares, ni en las fiestas, ni en la calle. La putería se aprende en soledad.

Al principio trataba de jugar con los otros, pero uno acepta cierto número de rechazos, hasta que se convierte en un solitario arrogante, de modo que parezca que se alejó primero.

Sólo los hombres fuertes saben obedecer las órdenes de una mujer.

I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion  

I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.

You can keep your sweaty, chatty Son to yourself.

the establishment of a universal system of public education inevitably changed the relations of education to the state. It is this above all else which has caused the mind of our society to lose its independence, so that there is no power left outside politics to guide modern civilization, when the politicians go astray. For in proportion as education becomes controlled by the state, it becomes nationalized, and in extreme cases the servant of a political party.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.