Quotes about Independence

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

The sad truth is that we live in a world that encourages selfishness, independence, convenience, isolation, and using people rather than loving them.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each instrument could do its own work, at the word of command or by intelligent anticipation, like the statues of Daedalus or the tripods made by Hephaestus, of which Homer relates that Of their own motion they entered the conclave of Gods on Olympus, as if a shuttle should weave of itself, and a plectrum should do its own harp playing.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

The only object of liberty is life.