Quotes About Independence

El amor es una cosa tan libre como el espíritu.

The only periods, I suspect, when a man feels captain of his soul are those when he has not the slightest need of such an organ.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking.

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them. The

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

Mirovên geÅŸbîn û reÅŸbîn, her du jî ji bo civakê pêwîst in. GeÅŸbîn balafirê didahêne; reÅŸbîn sîwana rizgariyê.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

La libertad supone responsabilidad. Por eso la mayor parte de los hombres la temen tanto.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed.

Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.

Hypatia:...I don't want to be good; and I don't want to be bad: I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad: I want to be an active verb. Lord Summerhays: An active verb? Oh, I see.An active verb signifies to be, to do or to suffer. Hypatia: Just so; how clever of you! I want to be; I want to do; and I'm game to suffer if it costs that. But stick here doing nothing but being good and nice and ladylike I simply won't.

and I wont be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence.

I can do without anybody. I have my own soul: my own spark of divine fire.

I don't say it was a bad one. But bad or good, I didn't choose to be cut to your measure. And I won't be cut to it.

I have always made you my companions and friends, and allowed you perfect freedom to do and say whatever you liked, so long as you liked what I could approve of.