Quotes About Independence

Why stay we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me: give me liberty, or give me death!

The bottom line is: Your life is up to you. Take charge of it, or somebody else will.

Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.

Most people would like to think that they are independent thinkers and that they value freedom, but they actually want freedom from choice instead of freedom of choice.

The next move was my first independent act and, as it turned out - with a run of luck - the first sensible one.

Chains are chains even if made of gold, they just tie you.

Alice: Is it because she's successful? Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.

I led as secret a life from my parents as I possibly could'.

I was happy when I walked the streets of Paris by myself.

When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?

Non ero veramente me stessa se non nel momento in cui fuggivo. Gli unici bei ricordi che ho sono ricordi di fughe vere e proprie o di scappatelle da casa.

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

It felt like waiting for something to happen. Which has to be the worst part of being young. So many of your decisions aren't yours; they're made by other people. Sometimes they're made badly by other people. Sometimes they're made by other people who have no idea what the consequences of those decisions might be. The bastards.

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

His mother shakes her head. "Everyone thinks they know what's best. Everyone." And then a voice behind him says, "Sometimes you need to find out that you don't, though.

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled It's not a weakness- It's your best strength- ... I know it in my heart- Right now- Todd Hewitt- There's nothing we can't do together- And we're gonna win -

But I'm still thinking about being born on a spaceship, an honest to badness spaceship. Growing up while flying along the stars, able to go wherever you wanted, not stuck on some hateful planet which clearly don't want you. You could go anywhere. If one place didn't suit, you'd find another. Full freedom in all direkshuns. Could there possibly be anything cooler in the whole world than that?

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

That's because the desire of most folks is to be told what to do." He looks back across the square, covered in tents and soldiers and townsfolk all huddled together. "People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.

The Mayor's wrong- He's wrong forever and ever- It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.

I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.