Isaiah Berlin Quotes

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.

I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to.

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

At some level I've got to have a private life.

Why can't you and I let the world run itself its own way?

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone.

I am not answerable to what happens with my personal life.

When you have your own place, you set your own rules.

I have my own life to live.

I'm not gonna tell any man what he should do in life.

It's so important to have a private life.

People should just let me be.

I wanted my private life to be private. I just wanted to be a fighter.

I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.