Quotes About Independence

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same."

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

Give me B movies or give me death!

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

To die at the command of another is to die twice.

She wanted to collapse and be rescued, and she wanted to be heroic and prevail, and she seemed to hate him most for reminding her, merely by taking it all in, that she could manage neither.

Hard to determine from the way she tackled her tasks whether it was she who was serving necessity or necessity that was serving her.

You got away from Palestine and the homeland. You got away from Brookline and the relatives. You got away from New York

Todo el mundo está insatisfecho, pero en general no se rompe, y, sobre todo, no rompen las personas que, a su vez, han sido abandonadas, como tú y tu hermano. Cuando pasas por lo que vosotros habéis pasado, valoras muchísimo la estabilidad, probablemente la valoras en exceso. Lo más difícil del mundo es cortar el nudo de tu vida y marcharte.

Sabbath had the power, and he knew it, of being no one with anything much to lose.

It had cost him dearly to clear a space where he could exist in the world as antagonistically as he liked.

I was ready to learn of the liberties a boy from an exemplary household could take when he stopped working to please everyone with his juvenile purity and discovered the guilty enjoyment of secretly acting on his own. -nor had I understood till then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.

For people who have long-term disabilities, one of the best things we can do is to provide tools that allow them to resume "normal" activity.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.