Quotes About Independence

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 Hood-damned coward…not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

There were other things than love upon which to thrive." (MT, p140)

The key, I think, is to hold true to your own aesthetics, that which you value, and yield to no one the power to become the arbiter of your tastes.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They're allowed to think.

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

Stay away from the government.

pack and a disorganized band of fringe oscillators. When the system was self-synchronizing, Winfree found that no oscillator was indispensable. There was no boss. Any oscillator could be removed and the process would still work.

The more independent a person is, financially and physically, the less controlled he is by the cult.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.

I'd go off alone, because you can't trust those who want to break the rules and you certainly can't trust those who make the rules so you do the only thing possible, you avoid the rules.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

We boast about our individuality and hold up our independence like a plucked bird bragging that now without the weight of all those feathers it will be able to soar higher than its fellows.

To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author.

We believe that innovative authors are more likely to come from people who are independent and won't work in a software 'factory' or 'bureaucracy.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

Hill-Billie was threatening for being free from hierarchy and unassimilated into Atlantic capitalism.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty

Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.