We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could...

If you don’t want to get stuck where you don’t want to be, have the courage to do difficult things.

Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave down every aspect of your personality that doesn’t quite fit into the story...

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am…the scarce minority.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

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...

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.

National Review’s premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.

Let’s make our own way,’ says the Mother, ‘and not in this boat.

I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

I burned by bridges so the devil couldn’t follow me.

I’m heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o’-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.

In fairy tales the evil characters disappear or die, in reality, evil spreads while you wait for your hero on a horse, only to realise the sword to save yourself was always in your hand…

Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak´s flute. It came from the direction of a small dark object...

Talking about independence makes me wonder, Who is truly independent in this world? A farmer who grows food is dependent on a baker, a barber, a doctor, and so on. A doctor is dependent on...

The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived…

Buffy Summers: (to Spike) “I could NEVER be your girl!

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at all, but just a story...

I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move – and no wonder! The woman behind shakes...

I didn’t want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn’t want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and...

If you’re waiting for me to declare my undying love for you, I can’t do that yet, blood-bond or no blood-bond. If you think I’m the swoony type of heroine you find in romance novels,...

America… goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!

The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it suits us. the modern woman’s fierce need for independence doesn’t mean we want...

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not...

Here’s what we’re not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught...

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life...

When someone says you can’t, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can’t.

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of ‘if you are not hurting anyone, and you’re not fucking with someone else’s shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be...

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented...

We can take pride … in being nuclear free and in having the strength and independence not to send our young people off to fight in unjust wars,

…they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is not gold that glitters……Eş gibi tatlı bir kelime karşılığında özgürlüklerinden vazgeçenler, parlayan her şeyin altın olmadığını görmeye...

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference...

Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you.

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free… 🙂 and humans will see…

Since Ireland’s independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.

It really is something … that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn’t it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping...

The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near… She was offering her open palm to the crook-eared cat, but he stayed where he was,...

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that...

Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other...

…the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange pool of city glow coming through the window, smelling heady curry...

Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries.