Quotes About Independence

Saugumas-tik miražas; vargu ar turi reikšm?s, kad esi pririštas, jei kitas lyno galas atsirišo.

I had come to see a beautiful liberation in this new way of thinking—which was, ironically, not having to think for myself.

That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next. I had laughed. You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

That…sucks." I shrug. "It is what it is," I tell her. "The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

I wondered what the hell had convinced me to live at the end of someone else's life rather than live my own

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself.

and my mother raised me by herself, supporting us by hosting home parties to sell sex toys instead of Tupperware.

i had not meant to leave them; i had only meant to leave. i wasnt running away from them; i was only running away

Uomini. Non si può vivere senza di loro... e non li si può abbattere legalmente... ... Ho buttato fuori di casa mio marito otto anni fa, e al suo posto ho comprato un lama. La decisione migliore che abbia mai preso.

green T-Bird. When

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own? One

If I live my life independently of my brother, and he destroys himself as a result of my independence, is there blood on my hands? Am I my brother's enabler?

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled; Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your glory bed, Or to victory.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

Deep down, very few of us want safety to suffocate freedom.

Szabadság nélkül nem élet az élet, nyugalom nélkül pedig nincsen szabadság.

The people need a master only as long as they have no understanding of their own. The more it acquires understanding, the more the government is bound to change its methods and to disappear. The most noble end of government is to become dispensable, so that everyone must govern himself.

But then all at once he wanted to have his own goods and money and to be his own master, and so he asked his father to give him his portion, and he left his home and went and wasted all his substance.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...

Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.