Quotes About Independence

Freedom will feel good to you too. Please acknowledge our higher purpose.

That's how I feel about my life. I like to skirt the edges. There it is in the field. Feeding itself.

The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.

We were free people. None of these officials actually were supposed to control us. But few seemed to realize that.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.

Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.

Possession of power that was not acquired through self-effort.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

really did not sell to him. He purchased of his own accord.

Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self.

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

Traveling across Australia, Asia, and Africa, he searched for people with little contact with the West who he could examine. Porteus found that the so-called Bushmen of the Kalahari scored a mental age of seven. Yet his subjects were navigating their way through Porteus's printed mazes in the middle of a vast desert that they could navigate without a map, finding all the food and shelter they required.

Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

He remarked that each of us was barred from silent knowledge by natural barriers, specific to each individual; and that the most impregnable of my barriers was the drive to disguise my complacency as independence.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.

I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

Yo no soy de ningún bando —repuso Fermín—. Es más, las banderas me parecen trapos de colores que huelen a rancio y me basta ver a cualquiera que se envuelva en ellas y se le llene la boca de himnos, escudos y discursos para que me entren cagarrinas. Siempre he pensado que el que siente mucho apego a un rebaño es que tiene algo de borrego. El prisionero del cielo

Y usted qué es, Óscar? de derechas o de izquierdas? - Óscar es ácrata, papá - cortó Marina El pedazo de pan se me atragantó. No sabía lo que significaba aquella palabra, pero sonaba a anarquista en bicicleta.

Lo que tiene que hacer usted es empezar a evitar que los demás le escriban el diálogo. Use la cabeza que Dios le ha plantado sobre las cervicales y hágase usted mismo el libreto.

Nada asusta más a un cafre que una mujer que sabe leer, escribir, pensar y encima enseña las rodillas.»