Quotes About Independence

People were always ready to yield their wills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chance for developing initiative, stability, and independence, said the great nineteenth-century Russian sociologist Nikolai Mikhailovsky

The personality can truly begin to emerge in religion because God, as an abstraction, does not oppose the individual as others do, but instead provides the individual with all the powers necessary for independent self-justification. What greater security than to lean confidently on God, on the Fount of creation, the most terrifying power of all? If God is hidden and intangible, all the better: that allows man to expand and develop by himself.

The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? ...

I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

Nobody likes to life anchors.

It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.

Su decisión habia sido permanecer en aguas profundas y tenebrosas, lejos de todas las trampas y cebos y traiciones. Mi decisión fué ir allá a buscarlo, mas allá de toda gente. Mas allá de toda gente en el mundo. Ahora estamos solos uno para el otro y así ha sido desde mediodía. Y nadie que venga a valernos, ni a él ni a mí.

You know it makes me feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

The bullfight is a Spanish institution; it has not existed because of the foreigners and tourists, but always in spite of them and any step to modify it to secure their approval, which it will never have, is a step towards its complete suppression.

But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

That's easy. I can always borrow two dollars and a half." "I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

There are two types of people: those who are easy to be with but also easy to be without, and who are difficult to be with, but impossible to be without.

All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify their members as failures.

Ara went down and Thomas Hudson was alone with the night and the sea and he still rode it like a horse going downhill too fast across broken country.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once.

He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.