Quotes about Independence

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

But instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. He then reached a bold decision about what to do, on his own.

The experiences of camp life show that man does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.

U]ntil his last breath no one can wrest from a man his freedom to take one or another attitude toward his destiny.

We are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.

To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

For," the outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country.

when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.