Quotes About Independence

So – a true philosopher is under no obligation to respect vulgar opinion as to what is religious or irreligious, what is just or unjust. What dishonour he brings on philosophers in general if he did! That's not what you learned here.

Because when you engage in the same things as the masses, you lower yourself to their level.

Goodness exists independently of our conception of it. The good is out there and it always has been out there, even before we began to exist.

No man is free unless he is the master of himself.

No person is free who is not master of themselves.

Working within our sphere of control, we are naturally free, independent, and strong. Beyond that sphere, we are weak, limited, and dependent.

Bravery is a scorner of things which inspire fear; it looks down upon, challenges, and crushes the powers of terror and all that would drive our freedom under the yoke.

Where are you going to find serenity and independence – in something free, or something enslaved?

No man can rob us of our Will—no man can lord it over that!

What else is freedom but the power to live our life the way we want? 'Nothing.

When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.

If you wish to be free, do not desire anything that depends on another, lest you make them your master.

Free is the person who lives as he wishes - And cannot be coerced, impeded, or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires, and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.

Since I can get greatness of soul and nobility from myself, why should I look to get a farm, or money, or some office, from you? I will not be so insensible of what I already own.

but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that the educated only are free. How is this? In this manner: Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else.

Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

no man is free until he s a master of himself!!

Freedom aggravates at least as much as it alleviates frustration.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

Sometimes you have to let people change and grow on their own, you have to back off and hope it turns out for the best.

Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.

Baby, ain't no fun being a queen living in a kingless castle.

A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.