Quotes About Independence

Der ganze Plan ist in seiner Grundform unendlich einfach (...): Man gebe uns die Souveränität eines für unsere gerechten Volksbedürfnisse genügenden Stückes der Erdoberfläche, alles andere werden wir selbst besorgen.

freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

And pockets! With pockets women could conquer the world!

But then she put her hands on Mary's shoulders and kissed both her cheeks. Well, Mary didn't mind. Irene was the most interesting woman she had ever met. They were not in competition, but if they had been, she would happily have lost to Irene Norton.

What good would it do for the Kates of the world to cry? They have learned that tears do not bring relief or change of circumstance. There is no one to wipe their tears, no one to assuage their grief.

IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security.

What a wretched thing it was to be born poor and not to have any one to do anything for you and not to be able to do so very much for yourself!

He would not wear the social shackles if it were possible to satisfy the needs of his heart and nature and still remain free and unfettered.

A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led. Clearly

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.

from The Auction I left my home with unencumbered will And all the rubbish of confusion sold.

Eddy, I've made my own way since I was a kid, and when I marry it's going to be because the man I love and a girl named Tina are traveling together in the same direction at approximately the same speed, and each under his own power. I won't be steered, towed, nor provided with an icebreaker. (...)

no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.

Un gato es el único animal que puede vivir como un parásito y conservar plenamente su capacidad de cuidar de sí mismo. Oímos hablar de perros perdidos, pero nunca de gatos perdidos. Los gatos no se pierden porque los gatos no son de niguna parte.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.

For true love to be there, you need to feel complete in yourself, not needing something from outside.

I am convinced that happiness is not possible unless it is based on freedom.

Liberation and salvation can't come from anyone other than yourself. You can't wait for somebody to help you. You are your own island. Go back to your in-breath and out-breath. Touch the peace within you, and you can see more deeply.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.

Citizen journalism and even our ethnic press could be harmed by big companies deciding where we can get our news.

My view of journalism is that it needs to be independent but it's not independent when someone is paying the bills for you.