Quotes About Independence

Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it

I don't want to spend the rest of my life with you

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

The secret is not to dream, she whispered. The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Witches were a bit like cats. They didn't much like one another's company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

William: I'm sure we can all pull together, sir. Vetinari: Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

I'm a witch. It's what we do. When it's nobody else's business, it's my business.

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

I'm not a lady, I'm a witch.

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.

Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that.

They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things said Rob Anybody, that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune? Can't girls seek their fortune? I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.

Is It Frightening To Be Free? You said it. You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves? Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

People ought to think for themselves... The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to. (Corporal Carrot)

The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.