Quotes About Independence

They understood that freedom was not merely the freedom to be left alone; it was the freedom to do what was right.

Every free-born American has a right to name his own necessities.

I don't follow the food trends.

By a declaration, liberty is born. With courage she is nourished, and with unceasing commitment she is guarded.

We hide in plain sight, and it works. Majestically . Everyone else can fuck the fuck off.

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." —THOMAS JEFFERSON

As Eisenstein affirmed, the impact of books to alter the master-apprentice traditional relationship was quite clear, as people could "instruct themselves primarily from books with a minimum of outside help" and "cut the bonds of subordination which kept pupils and apprentices under the tutelage of a given master.

Well, no programmer could direct Karpov's initiative as a whole. The best ones are like idiot savants: they know their stuff backward and forward, but that's all they're good for. They couldn't direct themselves out of a paper bag." She pursed her lips. "So again, I have to ask, who is running the operation now?

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Who says: 'Here reigns freedom' is lying, because freedom doesn't reign." Zu sagen "Hier herrscht Freiheit" ist immer ein Irrtum oder auch eine Lüge: Freiheit herrscht nicht.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Freedom, although it has brought [modern man] independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Centroversion persistently strives to ensure that the ego shall not remain an organ of the unconscious, but shall become more and more the representative of wholeness. That is to say, the ego fights against the unconscious tendency that seeks to master it, and instead of allowing itself to be possessed, learns to keep its independence in relation to both inside and outside.

Accordingly, the fertility goddess is both mother and virgin, the hetaera who belongs to no man but is ready to give herself to any man.

With the freeing of the captive and the founding of a new kingdom, the patriarchal age comes into force. It is not yet patriarchal in the sense that the female is subjugated, only in the sense that the male exercises independent control over his children.

Behind every man's insistence on masculine superiority there is an age-old envy of women.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.