Quotes about Self-reliance

We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do

When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.

But I don't think of you.

I do not care to be admired by anyone's heart—only by someone's head.

What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree, and to obey?

She caught herself thinking: She's functioning well in an emergency, I'll be all right with her—and realized that she was thinking of herself.

Why, child, such things are to be decided only by you and my son.

There are only individual minds and individual achievements—and a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiated masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. "I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others.

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

a new biological species, the hit-and-run businessmen, who did not stay in any line of business longer than the span of one deal, who had no payrolls to meet, no overhead to carry, no real estate to own, no equipment to build, whose

Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.