Quotes About Independence

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.

It shows?" "That you don't want to owe anything? Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. But sometimes it's about the other person.

My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman.

Joan has a right to love whom she likes, and to go where she likes and to work and be independent and happy, and if she can't be happy then she has a right to make her own unhappiness; it's a thousand times better to be unhappy in your own way than to be happy in someone else's.

I've spent fifty years...without a man in my bed. Think...of all the orgasms I missed.

What could possibly be more attractive to a woman than a strong man who believed in her?

Little girls think their fathers will save them. Women know better.

A person who requires others to fill in happiness in their lives or solely depends on others to full-fill their needs is a sign of a weak person.

What will it be like to be one instead of half of two?

Laws" and "rules" imposed on you From days of old renown, Are not intended for your "good" But for your crushing down. Then dare to rend the chains that bind And to yourself be true. Dare to liberate your mind, From all things, old and new.

Laws" and "Rules" imposed on you From days of old renown. Are not intended for your "good" But for your crushing down. Then dare to rend the chains that bind And to yourself be true. Dare to liberate your mind, From all things, old and new. Always think your own thought. All other thoughts reject; Learn to use your own brain And boldly stand erect.

Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty.

Statute books and golden rules were made to fetter slaves and fools.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Sidi, I ache inside. I yearn to fly away, to feel free in the light, in the dark. I don't ever want to come back.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar, who for three remarkable years (1919-1922) championed Hindi-Muslim partnership, dismissed the 'divide-and-rule' explanation for India's problems. 'They don't divide,' Jauhar pointed out. 'We divide and they rule.

am I inferior simply because I am not English born? Am I to be a slave because I am an Indian?

Churchill could not become Gandhi's idol, for the premier did not accept Indians as equals or as being worthy of independence

In 1947, additional factors contributed to the carnage. London's abrupt 20 February announcement that the British would very soon leave Punjab, Bengal and all of India was not accompanied by any plan of who would replace them in Lahore, Calcutta or Delhi.

Cutting losses was the watchword, as was throwing responsibility onto the shoulders of Indians. 'You asked us to quit. We will oblige. Now it's up to you.' The argument was irrefutable, but it was not as if earlier Indian demands had always been met.

Many of today's youngsters are unaware that in their grandparents' time Kolkata, Dhaka and Chittagong were part of a single entity, and Lahore, Rawalpindi, Amritsar and Jalandhar likewise. And they are unaware of what it means for a nation to find freedom.

the British would not permit a government 'whose authority is directly denied by large and powerful elements in India's national life

Probably between half a million and eight hundred thousand in all were killed in Punjab in 1947.