William P. Young Quotes

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.

There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

I want to live life on my own terms.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

Empowerment is a word that comes with liberty.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

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 think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

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.

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

I love not having to rely on anyone.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.