Quotes About Independence

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you

We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules, " I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.

I'm at that stage of life where I don't even care of people like me anymore. If you like me, Cool. If you don't, Okay!

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

This is our Country, there is nobody else who is going to come from outside to defend us. We need to wake up and defend ourselves to make this Country a beautiful and better Country for all of us.

Think for yourself and question authority.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.