Quotes About Independence

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

No Rack can torture me—My Soul—at Liberty—Behind this mortal BoneThere knits a bolder One—

Nobody said not to go.

The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, "Why, it is life.

Don't do for a group what a group can do for itself.

She was seventy-three, a widow, came in every night looking like the Queen, drank her body weight in gin and left looking like an unmade bed.

After all, the original way of writing books may turn out to be the best. The first author, it is plain, could not have taken anything from books, since there were no books for him to copy from; he looked at things for himself.

I am Born Free How Someone Can Hold Me In The Manacles of Slavery.

I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

The more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom.

Emancipation of the toilers can be the work only of the toilers themselves.

Well, you live your life the way you want, I live mine the way I want. We see who makes it farther.

At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

Nothing tamed or broke her, nothing touched her, neither kindness, nor scorn, nor hatred, nor love. She had never thought of prayer. It was unimaginable that she would ever bend her knees and come crawling along a dusty floor to anybody's altar.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

Very early on, I understood that I secretly and mysteriously belonged to the world of cats.

La femme mariée est une esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un trône.

Singular creature, he had never cared to find out a single relative among four generations counted on the female side. The thought of his heirs was abhorrent to him; and the idea that his wealth could pass into other hands after his death simply inconceivable.

An honest woman ought to be in a financial condition such as forbids her lover to think she will ever cost him anything.

In these times, liberty is no longer proscribed; it is going its rounds again.

To sum up, the world is mine without effort of mine, and the world has not the slightest hold on me.