Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

I think that people should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies and to live the life they want to lead.

I'll do what I like. It's my own life.

I'm just living my life the way I want to. I have the freedom to do that.

I don't like to tell people what they should or shouldn't do.

You can't force people to feel in a certain way, and the sooner you understand that, the better. I feel everything has its way of working.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

Being independent in my choices is important to me.

I want to be free to do what I right for me.

Let LeBron be LeBron.

One of the guiding beliefs of our consuming age is that we are all free and independent individuals. That we can choose to do pretty much what we want, and if we can't, then it's bad. But at the same time, co-existing alongside this, there is a completely different, parallel universe where we all seem meekly to do what those in power tell us to do.

I do what I like to do.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

I am not a number, I am a free man!

I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.

My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.

America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.