Quotes About Independence

I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it!

I said, "Nég Mawon toujou kanpé!!" —the free man is still standing!! And she replied, powerfully. "Cheri, Nég Mawon p'ap jamn krazé" —my dear, the free man will never be broken.

solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself; things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.

Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

One must love a cat on its own terms.

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Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.

La soledad es algo maravilloso (...), por dos motivos: primero porque le permite a un hombre estar consigo mismo; y segundo porque se libra de estar con los demás.

Por isso é muito melhor não ter amigos, desde que se tenha força de carácter suficiente para passar sem eles. No fim, os amigos acabam sempre por revelar-se um incómodo de uma maneira ou de outra. Mas, se tens de os ter, então deixa-os em paz e aceita que cada um tem o direito de existir de acordo com o seu próprio carácter, seja ele qual for.

Leading up to (divorce), the parties have to ry on different ways of being in the world. This means being single, sexually active, emotionally vulnerable with another human being.

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right" Tarah had said. "If not, your better off without him.

Forty-eight, okay? I don't put my teeth in a jar and I still drive at night.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

You raise your child the best you can. You release the child into the world, like launching a toy sailboat in a pond. Except the world is not a placid pond. More often, it is a raging sea, and life a perfect storm of the unexpected crashing head-on into the unbearable. There is no way to prepare the child for such a world because your own personal crises, traumas and failures are just that, your own. Your child, as you will belatedly learn, is not you.

Federal judges are kings and queens. They are appointed for life. No messy elections, no grubbing for lawyers' campaign contributions. They sit on thrones above the lowly members of their kingdom and are served by a royal retinue of law clerks, judicial assistants, court clerks, jury clerks, courtroom deputies, administrators, and, for all I know, court jesters.

Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain. Often loners

We were doing the best we could with what we had left, and more and more it was like Diogenes tossing away the tin cup because he could drink with his hands. It turns out there is no end to learning what you can do without.

Time to set forth alone and find out what sort of man I was, instead of being a mirror to somebody else. Swearing a blood oath, even as I clung to this ghost embrace, that I would never hold another man who wouldn't hold me back.

If softball leagues treated players as delicately as teachers do students, there'd be a rule about not striking out. After three strikes, they'd bring out a tee, or maybe the coach would go up there, take the bat out of the kid's hands, and hit it for him. We'd tell ourselves we were protecting their fragile psyches, when in reality we'd be sending a clear message: You can't do it, so I'll do it for you.