Quotes about Independence

I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.

Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

My real soul...? It's real only when it's independent...

This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. You don't think through another's brain and you don't work through another's hands. When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.

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

Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them. I feel that others live up to me, if they want me. And that is the way you feel, too, Hank, about yourself—whether you admit it or not.

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.

But I don't think of you.