Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.
Surya DasTags: motivational inspirational independence
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
Victoria Claflin WoodhullTags: independence womens-rights victoria-woodhull sufferage
The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas SzaszTags: self-reliance independence autonomy
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.
Sharon MaasTags: individuality inspirational empowerment roots freedom self-esteem identity home self-respect self-determination self-reliance self-assurance independence self-awareness homelessness anchoring attachment belonging self-trust self-sufficiency nationality self-containment
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 full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.
Hugo HamiltonTags: individuality inspirational empowerment roots self-esteem home self-respect self-determination self-reliance self-assurance independence self-awareness homelessness anchoring attachment belonging country self-trust self-sufficiency nationality self-containment
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life in itself already brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and where he loses his way, becomes isolated, and is torn piecemeal by some minotaur of conscience. Supposing such a one comes to grief, it is so far from the comprehension of men that they neither feel it, nor sympathize with it. And he cannot any longer go back! He cannot even go back again to the sympathy of men!
Friedrich NietzscheTags: independence individual independent
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
William ShakespeareTags: happiness love empowerment freedom marriage self-determination independence husbands courtship bachelorhood singles wooing
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
Jane AustenTags: strength empowerment judgment determination weakness self-determination independence persuasion interference
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
John Quincy AdamsTags: liberty freedom peace independence imperialism isolationism noninterventionism
Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
Sarah DessenTags: solitude self-reliance independence
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