Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

I’d like to take care of someone but at the same time I like girls who are independent.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

Whether it’s your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living—don’t let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

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

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

We are freer than we think.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

I felt free and therefore I was free.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.