Quotes About Independence

To be a member of such a crowd ... is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.

Current black leaders preach racial hatred and welfare dependency, not peace and independence. They earn their fat salaries by stirring up the racial pot and portraying blacks as the hopeless victims of racism.

You don't want to wake up one morning and realize that everything you've done in your life has been to please someone else. That you've let yourself be railroaded along the way.

Humph. Like hell. James Whitehorn Honeycutt would simply have to find another way to merge Honeycutt Foods with Reedwater Snacks. Regardless of what her father thought, the merger wasn't worth her freedom, or her happiness. She wasn't some medieval bride to be bartered off like a herd of cattle and a milk goat, for pity's sake. She was a woman who wanted more, who wanted to

She'd done it! She'd escaped!

I prefer to die of thirst in my own planet than to be a character more in this sad story.

Bigwig: I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah. Hazel: Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

He looked as though he knew how to take care of himself. There was a shrewd, buoyant air about him as he sat up, looked round and rubbed both front paws over his nose.

And now, you bunch of mole-snouted, muck-raking, hutch-hearted sheep ticks, get out of my sight sharp.

carrying money, food and the seal ring of Bel-ka-Trazet, set out alone for Lak. BOOK VI

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

The only law is one which leads to freedom

Mine's a free life, but it does get lonely sometimes.

A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.

Are you saying I can fly?" "I say you are free.

Fletcher Lynd Seagull was still quite young, but already he knew that no bird had ever been so harshly treated by any Flock, or with so much injustice.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer! ---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories

I didn't see how that applied to me, and reminded myself never to let a book replace my own thinking

the forces of rulers and ritual slowly, slowly will kill our freedom to live as we choose.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.

We are all. Free. To do. What- ever. We want. To do.