Quotes About Independence

Marile hot?râri trebuiesc luate de unul singur, în privinÈ›a asta nu pot fi de folos nici un maestru È™i nici o filozofie. În clipele de grea cump?n? omul nu mai poate face apel decât la propria raÈ›iune, la propria sa inim?, la propria sa persoan?.

Maybe she'd get a Siamese fighting fish. Or better yet, a ficus tree. God knows a plant would probably be a lot less offended that she ate take-out sushi almost every other night. It was a thought.

This new generation, they've been raised by their parents to assume they'll start at the top. No scut for them. They'll just sit in their parents' basement till the job offer for partner comes in.

Being a survivor didn't just mean being strong. It meant being lonely.

No pimp wants the hired help to achieve financial independence.

Stop psychoanalyzing me! Be less therapist, more man -- Man? Last time I tried being a man, you looked at me as if I was going to hit you. You don't need a man, Rainie. You either need a blow-up doll or a damn saint!

Oh no. I don't do children. They're small, needy, easily destroyed. Let's be honest. I've come a long way from my family history

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.