The family is inherently an obstacle to schemes for central control of social processes. Therefore the anointed necessarily find themselves repeatedly on a collision course with the family. It is not a matter of any subjective animus on their part against families. The anointed may in fact be willing to shower government largess upon families, as they do on other social entities. But the preservation of the family as an autonomous decision-making unit is incompatible with the third-party decision making that is at the heart of the vision of the anointed.
I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner.
Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.
Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.
What is seldom part of the vision of the anointed is a concept of ordinary people as autonomous decision makers free to reject any vision and to seek their own well-being through whatever social processes they choose. Thus, when those with the prevailing vision speak of the family—if only to defuse their adversaries’ emphasis on family values—they tend to conceive of the family as a recipient institution for government largess or guidance, rather than as a decision-making institution determining for itself how children shall be raised and with what values.
I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me.
I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.
I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.
I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it.
You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.
Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.
I'm a pretty solitary type of person.
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
I'm independent. I use my own money. For everything.
Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy.
Everything you see on my channel was made by me - no one else was involved.
This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren't exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.
I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.
I'm not a member of a political party, and I feel very, very comfortable being independent. Even if I weren't a journalist - if I were doing whatever - I would be an independent.
