Quotes About Independence

Kingdom of Self The Kingdom of God • Ruled by self-interest • Ruled by love • Grasping • Releasing • Achievement • Gift • Effort • Consent • Independence • Interdependence • Holding • Releasing • Willful • Willing • Clenched fists and closed heart • Open hands and heart • Hard and brittle • Soft and malleable • Determination • Transformation

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

It's just that I'm curious, that's all. He usually walks alone" "Yeah, he's a loner, all right," the waitress murmured. "Even when he's with someone, he's alone.

Insofar as we have freedoms, it's not because some great wise Founding Fathers granted them to us. It's because people like us insisted on exercising those freedoms—by doing exactly what we're doing here—before anyone was willing to acknowledge that they had them.

Humans may not have begun their history in a state of primordial innocence, but they do appear to have begun it with a self-conscious aversion to being told what to do.

They are free people, each of whom considers himself of as much consequence as the others; and they submit to their chiefs only in so far as it pleases them.'24

Still, Lincoln went on to insist, what made the United States different from Europe, indeed what made its democracy possible, was

most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation.

Si sentiva libero. [...] Libero come una stella che devia dall'orbita e solca il firmamento lasciandosi dietro una scia sfavillante.

Because even after fifty-six years of independent sovereignty, still the earth trembles beneath Israel's feet. Israel has not yet managed to establish among its citizens the sense that this place is their home. They may feel that Israel is their fortress, but still not truly their home.

He goes his way Without relying on others And does not pride himself On walking alone.70

Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in themselves that would make them more confident, more purposeful fighting men. It was their confidence in themselves that would make them fight well, he believed, not so much their belief in him. His job was to keep them to find that quality in themselves.

It's impossible to pick up a basset hound that doesn't want to be picked up, just as it's impossible to make one keep walking if it doesn't want to walk anymore. It'll just lie down and refuse to budge.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

No one rules if no one obeys

Real freedom - where I could think the unthinkable and say the unstable and I give a damn what people made of it. How many allow themselves that priceless gift? And get it is there for the taking whenever they choose.

If you don't have your own opinion...than you have somebody else's.

You have to cry your own tears because no one can do it for you.

I can help, but in the end it is up to you

Once it's all done, I fancy I'll come back as an owl. Free and alone in the quiet of the night.