Independence Quotes

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

there’s nothing todiscussthere’s nothing torememberthere’s nothing toforgetit’s sadand it’s notsadse...

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to...

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

St. John,” I said, “I think you are al­most wicked to talk so. I am dis­posed to be as con­tent as a...

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrif...

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I ...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I...

There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we t...

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of m...

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking f...

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by th...

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why n...

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through...

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point ...

It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can alw...

…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts a...

My soul, be satisfied with flowers,With fruit, with weeds even; but gather themIn the one garden you...

As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of u...

This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ...

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robo...

Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can...

How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards wo...

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when ...

I value my ownindependence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than thatof having anot...

Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yours...

But he could never be a made guy himself because of his tainted blood, some Sunset Park Puerto Rican...

I’ll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, ...

It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...

When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never h...

It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on ...

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate n...

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with depende...

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever a...

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact w...

HIGGINS [sitting down beside her] Rubbish! you shall marry an ambassador. You shall marry the Govern...

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every...

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

The only path of escape he could conceive as yet for Lady Harman lay through the chivalry of some ot...

He perceived too in these still hours how little he had understood her hitherto. He had been blinded...

This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his con...

...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen...

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though th...

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world hav...

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a ...

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for t...

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi...

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is bu...

The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On n...

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful co...

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is th...

Freedom is alone the unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; an...

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right...

Because I am for them, Commander, because their ancestors stood up to that Nazi, Bligh, just like I ...

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be r...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...

The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors ...

I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in t...

she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surp...

I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewitho...

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.All her life was an atte...

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...

Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of th...

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom ...

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to th...

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was a...

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I...

I feel different, better, about my personal life as well as my professional life. So much confidence...

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, ...

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence...

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself...

Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and ...

I'm single because I was born that way.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into ...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.'...