Independence Quotes - Page 5

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

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

I'm single because I was born that way.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

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

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

To know your soul is your own, that's what counts.

My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to just do what you want to do.' It's the freedom and the independence.

Niemand hat das Recht zu gehorchen.

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya

I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.

With the way a lot of men function, I'd say "single" womyn are a threat to society. In fact, I'd go as single womyn are a threat to the system. As a womyn, if you aren't spending all your time looking for what you were socialized to, you're doing something productive. I'd say that scares a hell of a lot of people.

Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time.

Nowadays all over the world fighting goes on for freedom and independence but it is hard to find anyone to whom the mystery of the godlike freedom of children of the Heavenly Father has been revealed.

And I'm not sure if it's G-d, or fate, or just air masses colliding over water, but I will say this: It feels, finally, like flying.