Quotes About Independence

Juo didesniais šviesuoliais tampame, juo sunkiau b?na prie m?s? pritapti. Kuo daugiau išmokstame, tuo labiau turime tik?tis likti vieni.

Gracias por tratar de hacerme sentir culpable, porque nunca más cambiaré de rumbo para complacer a otro.

To begin with," he said heavily, "you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.

It wasn't long before Jonathan Gull was off by himself again, far out at sea, hungry, happy, learning.

Juan gaviota pasó el resto de sus días solo, pero voló mucho más allá de los lejanos acantilados.

having stormed the German nuclear base in Santiago nearly single-handed back in 1953.

My mother used to say, when the time is right, you don't need to have a committee meeting about it.

The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the stars if you can believe that) what a great river it was. I come roaring from the earth and return roaring to the earth. I am the master of my waters. I am the mother and father of myself. I don't need a single drop of rain. Look at my smooth strong white muscles. I am my own future!

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

What would happen if you didn't do the thing you "have to" do?

No one has the right to force you to violate your own privacy.

I'm the first to admit that I always prefer approval over disapproval. It feels better and it's certainly easier to deal with. The more content I've become, however, the less I depend on it for my sense of well-being.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point

I prefer to say that I believe in people, and people, when given the right encouragement to think for themselves about all the information now available, very often turn out not to believe in God and to lead fulfilled and satisfied—indeed, liberated—lives.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.* 12

The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.

Remember, all I am trying to establish for the moment is that we do not, as a matter of fact, derive our morals from scripture. Or, if we do, we pick and choose among the scriptures for the nice bits and reject the nasty. But then we must have some independent criterion for deciding which are the moral bits: a criterion which, wherever it comes from, cannot come from scripture itself and is presumably available to all of us whether we are religious or not.

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

others to disagree with you. Form independent opinions on the basis of your own reason and experience; do not allow yourself to be led blindly by others. Question everything.

the closing words of my first book, 'We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out', thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

atheists and agnostics are not organized and therefore exert almost zero influence. Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.