Quotes About Independence

Where there is 'freedom from' without corresponding interrelationship, there is the anxiety of the defiant and isolated individual. Where there is dependence without freedom, there is the anxiety of the clinging person who cannot live outside a symbiosis.

If, when he first begins tentatively to say "No," his parents beat him down rather than love and encourage him, he thereafter will say "No" not as a form of true independent strength but as a mere rebellion.

In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom.

There are very few groups left who, like doctors and psychotherapists and some farmers, still have the luxury of being their own economic bosses—and even they are subject to the rise and fall of prices and the fluctuating market like everyone else.

The best way to defend yourself against the power of money is to have some.

the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.

He was entirely free of what De Gaulle called, in the kitchen Latin of Molière, paralysus respectus, the kind of awed rigidity that seemed to get hold of every Frenchman in the general's presence.

Je me souviens que je lui ai dit ça très franchement, il faut maigrir pour manger moins, mais c'es très dur pour une vieille femme qui est seule au monde. Elle a besoin de plus d'elle-même que les autres. Lorsqu'il n'y a personne pour vous aimer autour, ça devient de la graisse.

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others.

how often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn't care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.

She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.

A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belongs to no man and to no city. She knows nothing of borders and invents her own rules and customs. 'Time' for her isn't something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.

she was free in her wildness; that she was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.

The existence of autonomous individuals free to criticize was once a landmark of our civilization.

The American Revolution was to succeed because it was undertaken by skeptical men who knew that the same passions that toppled tyrannies could be applied to destructive ends.

I want a woman, Dad. I want somebody to love me. I wanna to be free again. I wanna walk in the backyard on the grass. I wanna put my bare feet in the ocean. I wanna run along the sand and feel it on my feet. I wanna stand up in the shower with the hot water streaming down my legs, in the morning...I wanna explode, Dad. I wanna get out of this fucking body I'm in. I wanna be a man again...I just wanna be a man again.

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

It's a very New England thing, this being alone even though you don't want to be. It proves, I guess, that you're above being lonely and can take or leave friendship. So, then, I was a loner who wished not to be alone.