Quotes About Independence

You couldn't live other people's lives?you could only fight for your own and struggle to survive.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence," he explained. "'Necessitous men are not free men.' People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

It wasn't his fault. It wasn't my fault. Darla chose her own path, as we all must.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself —Chinese proverb

A stray thought that maybe I should run away to South America started to sound like a good idea. I could change my name to Nikki Shelverstien and dye my hair a rich dark brunette. I could be a maid at a high-class hotel and pretend I didn't speak Spanish or English so everyone would leave me alone.

You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.

i > whatever you want here < / i >

Astronism is a champion of freethought.

Had I listened to the words of others, I'd have stayed nothing.

He will come to those who believe they need him least.

My end will come when he is able to live without me.

Nothing is a constant in our lives; not money, ambitions, people, or anything else, except you; yourself, alone.

To be happy is to have freedom.

It would be much better for you to give up thinking of God and to create your own justice, since it is refused you.

I would rather be ignored than patronized

The fact is, race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident, real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counter productive. I grew up in a family that believed that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your reaction to them. There was no room for being a victim or depending on the white man to take care of you.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.

The Chin have held us down for a long time, but that is over. We ride to war, brother.

If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn't matter what other people thought of him—even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.