Independence Quotes

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.'...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed he...

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she wou...

She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of be...

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of indepen...

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for h...

I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin d...

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.

Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life......

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performan...

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at th...

A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a sm...

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near......

Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than on...

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an up...

How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to liv...

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. I...

True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor in...

Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to mak...

In the twentieth century the women who wanted to be on their own were some of the best, the honest o...

But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault?

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body ...

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and ...

In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will...

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nati...

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we de...