Quotes About Independence

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

Sürü! Senin ilk görevin çoban?ndan kurtulmakt?r!

The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

We determine our own price; it is always good to set our price to infinity so that no one can buy us!

That's true freedom for a person. Not money, but time.

My mother left home in the manner that characterized everything she did: with a decision that swelled and ripened slowly and once made could be rescinded by no one. She would sit at the kitchen table with a large sheet of paper that she would divide into two columns. At the top of one she would write FOR and at the top of the other AGAINST...She made her lists, counted on her fingers, and made her decision only after tabulating and weighing.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

We learned from her how to think for ourselves, how to jump eagerly into adventure and then get out of the scrapes it inevitably involves, how to get to the truth, and, perhaps most importantly, how to spin into action when things are not right.

You don't make a female character strong by playing her opposite a buffoon. You just make her strong . .

If you go only where you are welcome, that's where other people want you to go, not where you choose to go. You're limited by their vision—not living your own dreams.

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?

Because being so dependent on people scares me.

No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?' The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. 'Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I'd have lain down and died waiting.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.