Quotes About Independence

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience,

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to save her. This is the hand of a woman who would climb a rope of her own hair to freedom, or kill a captor ogre in his sleep." I looked into her eyes. "And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn't been there. Singed perhaps, but safe.

pride is the luxury of the strong.

But pride is the luxury of the strong.

I'm willing to lose some sleep if it comes to that. I can't think of the last time I shared the company of a woman who speaks her mind firmly and without hesitation. Your kind are in short supply these days.

Il y a peu de choses aussi répugnantes qu'une obéissance aveugle.

leave where I'm not welcome," she said matter-of-factly. "Everything else I can make up along the way.

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to

La margarita también es bonita —proseguí sin dejar que Denna me distrajera—. Alta y esbelta, y crece en los márgenes de los caminos. Una flor sencilla, no demasiado delicada. La margarita es independiente. Creo que te pega...

She started to turn her face to me, then stopped and looked down again. "It's quite a thing," she said. "There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

No tienes las manos de un princesa frágil que pasa las horas haciendo encaje y que espera que llegue algún príncipe a salvarla. Son las manos de una mujer capaz de trepar por una cuerda hecha con su propio cabello para alcanzar la libertad, o de matar al ogro que la ha capturado mientras duerme.

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city - even if it was just the door to a shared toilet - if this one, most essential freedom was taken away from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

Besides which, he was a man who did not let his decisions be made for him by other people, not by a crowd thrown into panic, and certainly not by some anonymous piece of criminal trash.

But if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city--even if it was just the door to a shared toilet--if this one, most essential freedom was taken from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

daca iti era luata aceasta unica libertate, cea mai importanta dintre toate, si anume libertatea de a te izola la nevoie de ceilalti oameni, atunci toate celelalte libertati nu valorau nimic. Atunci viata nu mai avea rost.

It didn't matter that everyone else seemed to be doing it. To butcher a cliche, if everyone jumped off a bridge, they would all get wet. And some were going to drown. Or

As a wise man named Ben Franklin once said, those who would sacrifice liberty for security desire neither. I

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

When someone forces you - he unkindly borrows- he does not, can not own you- Remember your body, spirit and heart are yours and only yours, and when you start to process your sexual abuse you will get it all back.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.