Quotes About Independence

We used to call her Little, Little come here, we'd say. Little, unhand the cat, but then one day she won't let us, "I am big," she says and her face is stormy.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

When she tells people she might move to the country, they say, But aren't you afraid you're going to get lonely? Get?

do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men

For if all the men in the world looked upon you as more happy than themselves, then you would be contented. Oh, do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men.

To be new or original, after all, is proof that we are alive and have agency, that we are not enmeshed in an inexorable chain of cause and effect.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Flying means boredom. Next time you're going away, just drive. You can leave when you want. You don't have to sit next to a stranger. You can listen to all sorts of loud music without headphones and look at things out of the window that aren't just clouds. Driving is sensible alternative to flying.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

But my social circle had dwindled. Hell, all I had was a social dot—just me on a one man continuum.

Listen to your gut, her father was fond of saying, but make up your own damn mind.

It's not wise to rely on a man's ability to remember anything.

you will know that it is a more difficult work to reject the opinion of others than to establish your own.

The purpose of education is to produce autonomous learners who can continue to learn after they leave school.

It would be nice if nobody ever had to make anybody do anything.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands

Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country, because our parents are our first oppressors.

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Rewarding luck. Measuring outcomes when the people involved have little control over the results is tantamount to rewarding luck. It means that people are rewarded or penalized for outcomes that are actually independent of their efforts. Those penalized rightly feel that they've been treated unfairly.