Quotes About Independence

It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

you can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.

When it comes to this kind of thing we can all hold out helping hands to each other, doctors can supply some very helpful medications, but in the end, each of us has to have the will to swim to shore on our own. No one can carry another person. Not for long, at any rate.

No one can turn a man into a hero, just as no one can turn him into a coward. A man has to do either one all by himself.

Stark was accustomed to being alone when things went wrong. For that matter, he was accustomed to being alone when things went right.

She knew enough about him to realize that no one would ever understand him unless he wished it, and that was highly unlikely. He was a man who operated alone, working by his own rules even when he was doing a job for his employers. Emily thought of him in the same way she thought of hurricanes, charging lions and marauding sharks. The only sensible thing to do when any of them was in the vicinity was to get out of the way.

I don't mind being killed, but I don't want them to touch me.

The old form of voluntary servitude was that of free men using that freedom paradoxically to turn themselves into serfs. The new voluntary servitude is that of men obeying the demand that they be free.

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. Trampling down the leaves like snow in the wild light of the dead citadel, whose prince in days gone by rebelled against his king, for which reason the walls were pulled down.

It is, it seems, a social crime to desire solitude.

Eu nu am nici o opinie ÅŸi nu aparÅ£in nici unui mediu.Eu m? adresez todeauna celor care se str?duiesc cu disperare s? fie liberi ÅŸi care probabil,ca ÅŸi mine,aÅŸteapt? s? fie loviÅ£i din toate p?rÅ£ile,ÅŸi asta în asemenea m?sur? încât,atunci când li se fac complimente,se întreab? dac? nu s-au f?cut vinovaÅ£i de vreo greÅŸeal?.

Won't everything be all right if she's free?

Jean Craighead George

She had learned not to expect love, and wasn't even sure she wanted it. This was the most profound wisdom she'd managed to glean from the fifteen years she had spent in her mother's presence. Fifteen down. One—please

What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?

Liberty can be obtained, it cannot be regained.

I believe compulsory labor is less opposed to liberty than taxes.

What good is it to seek our happiness in the opinion of others if we cannot find it in ourselves?

L'uomo è nato libero e ovunque si trova in catene

A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.

We can't have freedom unless we have freedom. And that means freedom to speak our minds.

Oh, you!Don't pay any attention to him, Mr. Bowditch! His nose is out

He began to understand that just because some people thought certain behavior was wrong, that didn't make it so. A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there might be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

La carencia misma de responsabilidad le producía sentimientos contradictorios: una sensación inusitada de libertad al mismo tiempo que una frustración inexplicable.