independence Quotes

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.