Quotes About Independence

The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him.

The idea of "the free development of personality" seems admirable as long as one does not meet an individual whose personality has developed freely.

In order to escape from this prison, one must learn not to come to an arrangement with its indisputable comforts.

To be an aristocrat is to not believe that everything depends on the will.

The correct use of liberty can consist in adhering to a destiny, but my liberty consists in being able to refuse to do that. The right to fail is an important right of man.

The worst [type of] totalitarianism is not that of a state or a nation, but of society: society as the all-encompassing goal of all goals.

When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties

In order to live peacefully with one's neighbor, there is nothing better than not having a single postulate in common.

The American is not intolerable because he believes he is important individually, but because he possesses, insofar as he is an American, the solution to every problem.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and stay away. Here in his world she was trapped in an intolerable corner, which seemed to grow tighter and tighter each year. And now no place in America felt right.

Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to.

A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent.

She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open and blank with possibility; terrifying, almost.

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.

Hören Sie auf niemanden, der Ihnen sagt, Sie sollten nicht allein trinken.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm

I know who I am. That's what's important—not proving something to some strangers I don't even care about