Quotes About Independence

I want to live my life without troubling anyone. That's why it's best for me to keep my interactions... with others to the bare minimum...not that I've ever been the type of person to attract other people...but if I keep my distance...at least I won't bother anyone.

I'm going to keep my head up. I'm the one...who will forge my path in life.

I'm so rude. 'If you have trouble with anything...' I don't deserve to have anyone say that to me! 'When you need help, ask for help!' If I asked for help, I would just be...spoiled. Because I haven't done anything yet. I haven't done a single thing. By myself... or starting with myself...I've always just gone with the flow.

Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own.

Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: 'If the price we pay for freedom is high, we pay a much higher price if we accept to be slaves.

She delighted to hear words of admiration from a man's mouth, a delicious but never surprised delight, for she was sure something in her was worthy of admiration.

I refuse to be a slave, either to money or to love.

If the first man who comes along does not want her, she will have the next, or the one after. No need to wait any longer for just one man. No need to be sad when he does not turn up, or to expect anything and suffer when one's hopes are razed to the ground.

I was like a woman walking through an enchanted world to which she did not belong. She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

Lelaki tidak tahu nilai seorang perempuan. Perempuan itulah yang menentukan nilai dirinya. Semakin tinggi kau menaruh harga bagi dirimu semakin dia menyadari hargamu itu sebenarnya, dan dia akan bersiap untuk membayar dengan apa yang dimilikinya. Dan bila dia tidak memilikinya, dia akan mencuri dari orang lain untuk memberimu apa yang kau minta.

How had he become her every moment? How had a man become her whole life? How could a person consume all her attention? She didn't know how it had happened. She wasn't the sort of woman that gives her life away to anyone. Her life was too important to give to one man. Above all, her life was not her own but belonged to the world, which she wanted to change.

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for "freedom," be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he's fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do. ANTARES

Well, you can fuck off,' said Blade. 'I am Mobius Clean,' said the AI.

The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.

That the War of Independence resulted in the strengthening, not the termination, of slavery was not an unexpected outcome for Southerners: protecting slavery had been the point of the war for them. It was the principal Southern political goal at every moment until slavery was destroyed.

Twenty-two-year-old Ona Judge, who was Martha Washington's personal servant, escaped from the President and First Lady of the United States in Philadelphia in 1796 after learning she was to be given away as a wedding gift. She married a free black man in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and managed to avoid falling prey to the attempts at recapture that George Washington attempted against her until he died in 1799.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.