Quotes About Independence

didn't have to worry. A person of so fine a form and grace was her daughter, and she was fine over there. She had moxie and she was smart and there was nothing else to want for her. She'd be taking care of the wants for herself. Her mother would hold on to her still, but she could let her go at any time and the girl would be stalwart.

We are more than pawns, Kate. We are free to make our own choices. Kings and bishops shall not forever determine the fate of free men. (Frith) You're fleeing the wrath of a bishop, aren't you, and the king's soldiers? How can you be anything but a pawn in a dangerous game? (Kate) My choice, Kate. My choice not to play by the bishop's rules. A man whose spirit is free will never be a pawn in somebody else's game no matter what the consequences of his choice. (John) (p. 121)

You can't help a man who won't be helped. (p. 364)

if you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.

You learn to move on without the people you love.

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

when she stood up

Absolute rules are for unthinking people. Sheep require fences—humans do not.

Arrakis is ours because we have taken it," Selim announced. "We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.

Rigorously independent, the Fremen did not consider themselves true Imperial subjects. They viewed the Harkonnens as interlopers, temporary occupants who would be cast aside one day, in favor of another ruling House. In time, the Fremen themselves would rule here. Their legends foretold this.

Nevertheless, Paul had learned to make his own decisions. I have created a universe in which the old rules do not apply. A new paradigm. I am sorry, Father.

Any training school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

When alone, a man never had to worry about trusting his companions.

When I need somebeast to tell me m'name I'll jolly well ask m'self. Pish tush! The very idea, tellin' a chap his own moniker!

You may have enslaved our bodies, but our hearts and minds will always be free!

If you don't like it, then y'can jolly well lump it.

There's an old saying, Zill. Freedom can't be given, only earned.

Alana, we are soldiers, not fucking damsels in distress.

Every kid gets programmed by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told.

what good is freedom if we can't do what we want?

No matter how much freedom they're given, most kids are still glorified props, carefully shuttled from one secure location to the next. We're not children, we're eggs.

I asked her if he missed my poppa. She said she did. But God had always made it so that women outlived men. That way women could have time to be by themselves-a time to be in the world without a reason bein' placed upon it. That women had so many faces: a face for their husband, a face for their children, a face for strangers; only when they were alone could they find that face that suited just them. And if the woman happened to die before the man, that time alone would show him her worth.

If you rely exclusively on the advice of others, you may make terrible mistakes. Your heart knows what you need. Other people have other agendas.