Quotes About Independence

Entitled or unentitled — that does not concern me, if I am only powerful, I am of myself empowered, and need no other empowering and entitling.

Das Gefängnis betritt man gewöhnlich nicht freiwillig und bleibt auch selten freiwillig darin, sondern hegt das egoistische Verlangen nach Freiheit.

The man who is set free is nothing but a freed man, a libertinus, a dog dragging a piece of chain with him: he is an unfree man in the garment of freedom, like the ass in the lion's skin.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

He who, to hold his own, must count on the absence of will in others is a thing made by these others, as the master is a thing made by the servant. If submissiveness ceased, it would be all over with lordship.

Non preoccuparti delle barriere degli altri: è sufficiente che tu abbatta le tue.

In practice this means that God helps those who help themselves . Thus

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)

Our daughters and sons have burstfrom the marionette showleaving a tangle of stringsand gone into the unlit audience.

I took the lake between my legs.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Stop measuring yourself against "their" standards. You are not "them" and can never measure up. Neither can "they" measure up to yours—nor should they. Once you see this simple, rather self-evident truth, accept it, and believe it, your inferior feelings will vanish.

There are "standard" convictions which are strongly held by nearly everyone. These are (1) the feeling or belief that one is capable of doing his share, holding up his end of the log, exerting a certain amount of independence, and (2) the belief that there is "something" inside you which should not be allowed to suffer indignities.

Lecky found that there were two powerful "levers" for changing beliefs and concepts. There are "standard" convictions which are strongly held by nearly everyone. These are (1) the feeling or belief that one is capable of doing his share, holding up his end of the log, exerting a certain amount of independence, and (2) the belief that there is "something" inside you which should not be allowed to suffer indignities.

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

Opet sam sam. Možda je i najbolje tako, ne o?ekuješ pomo? i ne bojiš se izdaje. Sam. U?init ?u sve što mogu, ne uzdaju?i se u podršku koje nema, i onda je moje sve što postignem, i zlo i dobro.

?ovjek mora da ima neko mjesto koje mu je drago zato što je njegovo, i zato što je zašti?eno, svijet je pun zamki kad si bez oslonca.