Quotes About Independence

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

We were not created to live independently of Him; that brings insanity. It is only in humble dependence upon the Creator that mind and emotions enter into soundness and trustworthiness. Being

Bannon, Kushner, Conway, and the president's daughter actually had no specific responsibilities—they could make it up as they went along. They did what they wanted.

There would be, in other words, one chief of staff in name—the unimportant one—and various others, more important, in practice, ensuring both chaos and Trump's own undisputed independence. Jim Baker, chief of staff for both Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and almost everybody's model for managing the West Wing, advised Priebus not to take the job.

He reprimanded the housekeeping staff for picking up his shirt from the floor: "If my shirt is on the floor, it's because I want it on the floor." Then he imposed a set of new rules: nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush. (He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's—nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade.)

For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—"professor" was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never going to class, never buying a textbook, never taking a note—he got up and left the room.

I would never have to work again. I could travel where I wanted, work if and when I wanted, and be completely free. If I survived.

She was learning at breakneck speed that the price of freedom was responsibility.

Everyone wants "freedom," she decided, but the more free one was, the more responsibility one had.

He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them.

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

Il n'y a pas d'amour dans la liberté individuelle, dans l'indépendance, c'est tout simplement un mensonge, et l'un des plus grossiers qui puisse se concevoir; il n'y a d'amour que dans le désir d'anéantissement, de fusion, de disparition individuelle, dans une sorte comme on disait autrefois de sentiment océanique, dans quelque chose qui de toute façon était, au moins dans un futur proche, condamné.

La liberté, à titre personnel, j'étais plutôt contre; il est amusant de constater que ce sont toujours les adversaires de la liberté qui se trouvent, à un moment ou à un autre, en avoir le plus besoin.

Estoy en el sistema liberal como un lobo en un descampado

Obviously they had no autonomy, but as they say in English, fuck autonomy.

Un couple est un monde, un monde autonome et clos qui se déplace au milieu d'un monde plus vaste, sans en être réellement atteint ; solitaire

desde mi infancia, la idea que cerraba todas las discusiones, que ponía fin a todas las divergencias, la idea en torno a la cual había visto surgir con mayor frecuencia un consenso absoluto, tranquilo, sin complicaciones, podía resumirse más o menos así: «En el fondo, uno nace solo, vive solo y muere solo».

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

In van! Cand vrei sa cazi, nu iei aminte la bratul care vrea sa te ridice.