Quotes about Independence

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!