Quotes About Independence

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.