Quotes About Independence

you cannot please everyone, so why please anyone at all?

Many of these mothers raised their daughters to not need a man. At

Decisions are now made by one individual, rather than by a committee. He no longer has to mind read, predict, or try to please multiple voices with conflicting agendas. When putting himself first all the information he needs to make a decision is within him: "Is this what I want? Yes. Then that's what I'll do.

Emerson put the development of the individual, rather than service to society, at the heart of his educational vision.

The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these are major states of mind in contemporary imaginative literature.

The self is completely autonomous, yet exists only in resonance with all other selves.

You and I come forth as possibilities of essential nature, alone and independent as stars, yet reflecting and being reflected by all things. My life and yours are the unfolding realization of total aloneness and total intimacy.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

[M*A*S*H] didn't get released by FOX, it escaped.

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Orders make you stupid, the captain told me, figure it out for yourself.

Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight.

Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight. The

As an old adage advises, "If you really want to get something done, you've got three options: do it yourself, pay top dollar, or forbid your teenagers to do it.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. —WALTER LIPPMANN I

How the hell can you be liberated and accept alimony?" I said. Again the smile, innocent, beautiful, glorious, and satanic. "Exploit the oppressor," she said.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.