Quotes About Independence

Everyone must go his own way, Jake,' said Hugo. 'Things don't matter as much as you think.

We'll see you through, Martin, said Antonia . . . So do not be guilty or worried, darling Martin. I won't be guilty or worried, I'll be raving mad, I said. I don't want you to see me through. I want to be left alone by both of you at long last.

She could have a good career. She could be secretary to some interesting man.' 'I don't want her to be secretary to some interesting man,' said Mor, 'I want her to be an interesting woman and have someone else be her secretary.

I must return to my freedom which I now realise is something so essential that it makes my love for you seem like death.

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

Óóó. É sempre bom abandonar alguém que diz que gostaria de ver você de novo, porque inevitavelmente chegaria o dia em que você ia ter que abandonar essa pessoa porque ela não quer ver você de novo.

Now I'll be left alone, and that's all you want, all you crave out of life: to be left alone while you get on with the business of interfering with others. In

Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character.

We are giving the world back to man, and man back to himself. Man shall no longer be vile, but noble. We shall not destroy his mind in return for an immortal soul. Without a free, vigorous and creative mind, man is but an animal, and he will die like an animal, without any shred of a soul. We return to man his arts, his literature, his sciences, his independence to think and feel as an individual, not to be bound to dogma like a slave, to rot in his chains.

There's all the kids at home, and my mother and brother. And the men I pick up. But you live alone anyhow, don't you? It ain't people that count. It's having someone you really like.

You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic? Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.

Galaxy! When can a man know he is not a puppet? How can a man know he is not a puppet?

I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

It amounts to a diseased attitude—a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority.

You'll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants.

What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb; and once left, it could not be re-entered.

Throughout you have invariably relied on authority or on the past—never on yourselves.

They are useful, but they are too strong—and too uncontrolled. They are Outlanders, educated apart from religion. On the one hand, we put knowledge into their hands, and on the other, we remove our strongest hold upon them.

Being helpless is one of the things that isn't altogether amusing. - Gilbert

The human mind resents control.

It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

Men who feel themselves strong enough to decide for themselves what is best for themselves, and not just to be told what is best for others.

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