Quotes About Independence

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

Nature is nobody's ally.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

Grown men do not need leaders.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.