Quotes about Independence

As Eisenstein affirmed, the impact of books to alter the master-apprentice traditional relationship was quite clear, as people could "instruct themselves primarily from books with a minimum of outside help" and "cut the bonds of subordination which kept pupils and apprentices under the tutelage of a given master.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

I have my relationship with God and myself, and that's what matters to me. I really don't care what most people think.

Freedom is relative.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

The main characters in a novel must necessarily have some kinship to the author, they come out of his body as a child comes from the womb, then the umbilical cord is cut, and they grow into independence. The more the author knows of his own character the more he can distance himself from his invented characters and the more room they have to grow in.

Oh, go away,' I said. 'Go to your Third Force and York Harding and the Role of Democracy. Go away and play with plastics.' Later I had to admit that he had carried out my instructions to the letter.

My dear, try to believe we exist when you aren't there. We're independent of you. None of us is like you fancy we are. Perhaps it wouldn't matter much if your thoughts were not so dark, always so dark.