Quotes About Independence

But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.

They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.

U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja prolje?a koja nikad ne presahnu

When there were none but these two left in the hall, Wang the Tiger leaned forward out of his carven seat and he said in a hard, hoarse voice, Woman, you are free. Choose where you will go and I will send someone to take you there. And she answered simply, with all the boldness gone out of her, except that she could look at him in the eyes while she said it, I have chosen already. I am your bondswoman.

But is strength comfort for a woman?

He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.

if China is not our suzerain!

Yes, you paid money for me, she answered, but that does not make me yours. A human creature cannot be bought whole.

This foreign one has no fear of anything in her, although she is not beautiful as the Fourth Lady was beautiful. She does not trouble herself. She accepts as her right the interest of men. She makes no effort to win their glances. She seems to say, "This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.

Heaven in its mercy says when a woman is forty, 'Now, poor soul and body, the rest of your life you shall have for yourself. You have divided yourself again and again, and now take what is left and make yourself whole again

the doctrine of isolationism and

I need this wild life, this freedom. To be alive, to look into nature, and so into my soul.

He slugged back the last of his coffee and stood. Nobody gets me, sweetheart. And if I want anything you've got, you'll know the minute I come after it.

nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject.

And that can never be a mistake--to fly instead of staying in the nest with all the poop and everything that's in there.

Taking refuge is the way that we begin cultivating the openness and the goodheartedness that allow us to be less and less dependent.

On the other hand, this need to cling, this need to hold the hand, this cry for Mom, also shows you that that's the edge of the nest. Stepping through right there—making a leap—becomes the motivation for cultivating maitri. You realize that if you can step through that doorway, you're going forward, you're becoming more of an adult, more of a complete person, more whole.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.