Quotes about Independence

But instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. He then reached a bold decision about what to do, on his own.

The experiences of camp life show that man does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.

U]ntil his last breath no one can wrest from a man his freedom to take one or another attitude toward his destiny.

We are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.

To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

For," the outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country.

when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.

I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.

Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.