Quotes About Independence

In recommending free trade to developing countries, the Bad Samaritans point out that all the rich countries have free(ish) trade. This is, however, like people advising the parents of a six-year old boy to make him get a job, arguing that successful adults don't live off their parents and, therefore, that being independent must be the reason for their successes. They do not realize that those adults are independent because they are successful, and not the other way around.

I would go one step further and say that the willingness to challenge professional economists - and other experts - should be the foundation of democracy. When you think about it, if all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having a democracy at all? Unless we want our societies to be run by a body of self-elected experts, we all have to learn economics and challenge professional economists

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.

I wish I had the strength to make an outcast of myself.

Maybe there's no secret essence inside me or you or them or anybody, nothing except what we choose for ourselves. No fate, no future, no past... except what we choose. No slaves and masters for the soul, only whores and politicians.

Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space!

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." It would follow, then, that no one can make you feel anything without your consent.

It's a useful habit never to believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

My mother calls once a year to ask when I'm going back to studies. This is Croatian slang for "the money's up.

Concluzia trista la care ajunsesem in viata era ca fericirea nu vine de la ceilalti oameni, ci din a sta cat mai departe de ei.

I'm a wanderess I'm a one night stand Don't belong to no city Don't belong to no man (Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people's rooms, always I was the one to ask for love.

I can settle down and be doing just fineTill I hear an old train rolling down the line,Then I hurry straight home and packAnd if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stackI love you baby, but you gotta understandWhen the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man

Country folks will survive

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn't mean that we are alone.

It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.