Quotes About Independence

The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.

No wife, no horse, no mustache

Now you know how I fooled you," he would say. "Try to figure out on your own how your congressmen and clergymen fool you. There is no restraint that isn't self-imposed: you are all absolutely free.

You become a leading Expert by acting as if everybody else's opinion deserves no attention and never even deserves the courtesy of an answer.

But if I were a man," she said, "I imagine you wouldn't let me say it." "No," I said. "If I didn't need your help, I wouldn't let you say it.

fear that if I'm dependent on anything or anyone I can't control my life.

What I must do concerns me, not what people think.' 

Conversation between Susan's therapist and Spenser - And when you find her? Then what? Then she will be free again to come here and work with you until she can make the choices she wishes to make. And what if you are not that choice? I think I will be. But I can't control that. What I can do is see that she's free to choose.

He who would be a man must be a nonconformist.

I called Hawk on his cell phone. "Where are you?" I said. "Not your business," he said. "What are you doing." "Very not your business," he said. "Oh that," I said.

Words can," Susan said. "And tone of voice. You're just so goddamned autonomous that you won't explain yourself to anybody.

If you can't be alone," Jesse said, "you can't be with someone.

One thing was certain, she was through depending on others--others who didn't care, who just wanted to keep out of trouble.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Nor yours nor mine, nor slave nor free!

They tell you to do your thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

I worried, but I couldn't bring myself to trap him inside and make him a prisoner, so I'd put in his door. The house felt empty without him.

Solitude was a spell that freed her.

Larkin pushed the accelerator and felt the wind lift her hair. She bore south on Vine, then east on Wilshire, laughing as her eyes grew wet. Light poles flicked past; red or green, it didn't matter and she didn't care. Honking horns were lost in the rush. Her long hair, the color of pennies, whipped and lashed. She closed her eyes, held them closed, kept them shut even longer, then popped them wide and laughed that she still flew straight and true—

Somewhere between Burger King and now, the Syrian's sleight-of-hand security system worked. Pike wasn't here. I never doubted, not once, he would find me. My task was to stay alive until it happened or I could escape on my own. The United States Army sent me to something called Ranger School. The Ranger motto was sua sponte. It meant you're on your own, asshole. Okay.

Pike's red Jeep was at the edge of the drive out by the gate. It was as far from the other vehicles as possible. Even Pike's transportation is anti-social.

He left ICM last year to start his own talent agency and things just haven't gone the way they should. He's had to worry about the house payments and the cars and schools.

whereas the Catholic Church is unified under a pope, the Orthodox world is more an assemblage of "independent local Churches" that are "highly flexible" and "easily adapted to changing conditions.