Quotes About Independence

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. / Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Sin personalidades creativas que piensen por sí mismas es impensable el desarrollo de la comunidad.

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

Having some support and the reassurance that my family, friends, or others will help me when I am anxious will often reduce my anxiety and panic. But because such support and reassurance may not exist or may not continue, I'd better not rely on it solely. I also had better gain self-confidence and self-support. 8.

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

Two great appetites of the soul - the urge to independence and self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence - were fused with, and interpreted in the light of, a third - the urge to worship

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.

We live together,we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand and hand into the arena; they are crucified alone.

I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

Si l'on est différent, il est fatal qu'on soit seul.

And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing.

No sé qué quieres decir. Yo soy libre. Libre de divertirme cuanto quiera. Hoy día todo el mundo es feliz. Bernard rió. -SI, hoy día todo el mundo el feliz. Eso es lo que ya les decimos a los niños a los cinco años. Pero ¿no te gustaría tener la libertad de ser feliz... de otra manera? A tu modo, por ejemplo; no a la manera de todos

But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man—that it is an unnatural state—will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end . . .

I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire for freedom and solitude has lead to a not only to a consistent effort to avoid situations in which I would be under the control of other people, but also to an indifference to the satisfactions of power and position, things which impose a servitude...

I'll MAKE you be free whether you want to or not.' -The Savage

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man-- that it is an unnatural state -- will do for a while, but will not carry us on safely to the end...

The most successful men are those who never admit the validity of other people's opinions, who even deny their existence.

what would it be like if I could, if I were free

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.