Quotes About Independence

He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum

Sometimes it takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

Power is the ability to afford not to learn.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

I am in charge. I take my own power back.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.