Quotes About Independence

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes…. I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

It is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termite-like.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy--of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.