Quotes About Independence

I want you to listen to me carefully. I don't give a shit what the council says. You're here, you're mine, and nothing they say or do will change that. Period.

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their common sense.

Increasingly I perceived myself as being neither on the left nor the right but as believing in a distinct "third position," mistrustful of big government of whatever political hue, which I perceived in the Orwellian sense as being Big Brother, the crusher of freedom.

The main goal of education should always be to learn how to learn, to become an independent thinker.

evangelism of children nonetheless seeks to cut off the process of independent thought before it begins. It's this aspect of religious indoctrination that is most unacceptable—the idea that doubt is bad, that unquestioning acceptance is good, that there is only one possible right answer, and that someone else has already figured out what that answer is.

1) Always question authority; (2) when in doubt, see rule 1.

What we truly want is the satisfaction of seeing our children become mature, self-reliant human beings, at any age, thinking for themselves, free and happy. Parents who want anything else are obsessed with control and not free and happy themselves.

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

Thank you mister. You fight for liberty. Me I don't care for some.

freedom must be fought for, every day.

He didn't depend so much on the good opinion of others to feel complete. Nor did he expect happiness as his right any longer; he knew it was only for the strong.

Asking, "If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?" is like asking, "If there is no master, whose slave will I be?" If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom who should detest.

An armed man is a little republic unto himself

Nobody calls me a crybaby.

It was lonely in that damn motel room. When I'm on the road, I usually have a dog with me. Animals I like. People I learned a long time ago to do without.

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

I tell my board as little as possible," he says. "I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.

A job should not define who or what you are. You should be able to leave today and it not change the overall purpose or direction of your life.

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

It's tragic that those with the strongest ancestral tie to the land, the Native Americans, have so bitterly felt the chasm between the soaring words of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution and the harsh reality of governmental policy.