Quotes About Independence

Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

It must be taken as given that a man who happens to be the world's most powerful, most terrible, most deadly sorceror, must have a woman at his side. But it does not follow, my children, that a woman of similar proportions requires a man at hers.

It was no crime to turn from the common path, yet it came at a cost nonetheless.

She held herself straight, moving slowly, making her way towards the head of the column. And of all the journeys she had undertaken, since the very beginning, this one – from the back of the column to its head – was the longest one she had ever travelled. And, as ever, she travelled it alone.

There were many kinds of freedom, and the most precious ones were secret.

Mother Dark had turned away. She had left them to fates of their own devising, and in so doing, she had taken away their privilege of blaming someone else.

The most deadly seducers are the ones encouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a damned coward...not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

You'll not have me, Lord, because you can't.

Some people just don't like being told what they can and can't do." "Some people use that line to rationalize being assholes

Gruntle subsided, muttering under his breath. Gods, I wish the world was full of passive, mewling women. He thought about that a moment longer, then scowled. On second thought, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it …

Out onto the battered road, then, the city falling away behind them. After a time, Karsa glanced back and bared his teeth at her. 'Listen. That is better, yes?' 'I hear only the wind.' 'Better than ten thousand tireless contrivances.

An unwillingness. I can carry no one else's burden - not even for a moment. We are all pulled inside ourselves now, each alone...

It's a poor scholar who trusts anyone's judgement. Even and perhaps especially his own.

You must dismantle your sources, Toc the Younger, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others.

The most deadly seducers are the ones incouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward... not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

There had been no time when he'd felt alone. Alone in the frightened sense, that is. Solitude was born of decision, and could be as easily yielded when its purpose was done.

Qué es lo que convierte a un soldado malazano en un miliciano tan peligroso? Se les permite pensar.

Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.

Contrivances that require no food or water, that do not tire or grow lame, imagine the freedom of such a world as that would bring, Karsa Orlong." "People would go everywhere. What freedom in a smaller world, witch?

and is she sorry? By Apsalar she is not!

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.