Quotes About Independence

I think people who traveled to extrasolar worlds would be on their own—far from politicians and business people, failing economies and tortured ecologies—and far from help. Well out of the shadow of their parent world.

too. A woman should have something of her own." Doro

Nothing is going to save us. If we don't save ourselves, we're dead.

For my people, I respect the gods. I speak as the voice of a god. For myself... in my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she answered her captors' questions? What did she have to lose beyond misery, isolation, and silence? Yet she held out.

Humans are freer to decide what they want," he said softly. "They only think they are," Dehkiaht replied.

Back into your cage, Lilith?" Jdahya asked softly.

No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.

In the world of mules There are no rules.

How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality? For this our delicate balance of dependence and independence, this coolly critical, shrewdly ridiculing, but loving mutual contact, was surely a microcosm of true community, was after all in its simple style an actual and living example of that high goal which the world seeks.

But this had always been part of his work—no matter how vast the security apparatus behind you, the fact was that, in the end, you were alone.

If no one out there understands Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman. —BILLY BRAGG, "WAITING FOR THE GREAT LEAP FORWARDS

She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

That's too much. You can't want all those things,' he said. 'Oh yes I can! And I'm the one to define what I can want,' I shouted furiously

But children aren't people. Children become people when they wriggle out of your arms and say "no.

I know the date of my own death, and that lets me feel free.

Izydor couldn't care less about either the Party or going to church. Now he needed time for thinking, remembering Ruta, for reading, for learning German, for writing letters, collecting stamps, staring at his skylight, and gradually, idly sensing the order of the universe.

Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.

In fact, thought Karen, women could get along perfectly fine without men altogether.

female friends over the age of forty who have left their boring husbands in search of some excitement.

The island state is a state of remaining within one's own boundaries, undisturbed by any external influence; it resembles a kind of narcissism or even autism.