Quotes About Independence

Aquel que quiere ser amado, debe querer la libertad del otro, porque de ella emerge el amor, si lo someto, se vuelve objeto, y de un objeto no puedo recibir amor

It is your show. It is your universe. There is no one else here, just you, and nothing is being withheld from you. You are completely on your own. Everything is available for direct knowing. No one else has anything you need. No one else can lead you, pull you, push you or carry you.

I don't see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

Why should I let anything stand in the way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of vivisection?

Doakes was gone. One small piece at a time he was leaving my life and releasing me from the involuntary servitude of Rita's couch. I could live again.

lived my adolescence like a sheepdog moving through a flock of dirty, very stupid sheep.

I was the New Age guru who had attained a perfect state of Enough Already, and if the world wanted any more from me they could damn well come and get it.

You're too young to go to the mall," Rita said. "And anyway—" "I'm almost twelve," Astor interrupted with a hiss, making "twelve" sound like an age so advanced that it required regular geriatric care.

Have you ever noticed that no matter how often we all talk about freedom we never seem to have any? There were few things in the world I wanted to do less than follow my sister into the park, where a very obvious trap was set for us and, if everything went really well, the best I could hope for was having Samantha Aldovar ruin my life. If I truly had any freedom at all I would have taken Deborah's car and gone down to Calle Ocho for a palomilla steak and an Ironbeer. But

Give me liberty or give me death," I told him. "Death is much easier to arrange, I'm afraid," he said, shaking his head. "Maybe," I said. "But I have to do what I can.

People would always rather muddle along in their own dim, blundering way than have someone else point out where they were going wrong—even if that other person is clearly brighter.

All we ask is to be let alone.

The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination, we will have.

Accept nothing, Believe no one, Challenge everything. It's the only law I live by.

To be allowed to pursue a career of his own choosing, and not just be expected to follow in his father's footsteps.

We worked together, we studied together, we played together, but we slept alone.

Women are naturally superior to men, and Mrs Consuela Rosenheim was no exception.

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

Olivia lit a cigarette and said, God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere!

Here it comes, I thought. The first ex-boyfriend had been summoned. Soon the rest would follow. They would file around the table, presenting their deficiencies, telling of their addictions, their cheating hearts... But that didn't happen with Julie. This was because Julie isn't husband-hunting. So she didn't have to interview me for the job.

Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them...People don't save other people. People save themselves.