Independence quotations

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◆ My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

- Mary Wollstonecraft99

◆ I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

- Howard Zinn99

◆ Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

- Tiffany Madison99

◆ So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

- Haruki Murakami99

◆ People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

- Sherry Argov99

◆ The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

- Joseph Heller99

◆ I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

- Katharine Hepburn99

◆ I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

- Tana French99

◆ It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

- Noam Chomsky99

◆ There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

- Greta Garbo99

◆ The only thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

- 99

◆ Some people dont know the difference between thinking for yourself and thinking of yourself.

- Vikrant Parsai99