Quotes About Independence

For a game, you don't need a teacher.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

If you don't trust yourself, if you don't know your own value system, then you're lost, and you can be manipulated." — Salih Rasava?, Social Worker, Sarajevo

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Mother, father, there is no passing the cup. I want to be a troublemaker when I grow up.

One of the most scariest thing in life,is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you,is...yourself Demi lovato

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence

Her jaw set, she passed him, going to the high

Beau was going to have a cow. But when did Beau's opinion ever keep Zac from doing what he wanted?

Maybe he should go after her. Maybe he hadn't tried hard enough. Maybe she was missing him as much as he missed her. Finding her would be a challenge, but that had never stopped him before. Surely she'd left a forwarding address with the post office. But no. That's what her psycho, controlling late husband would have done: hunt her down. She needed to be free to make her own choice. And she had.

Elbridge Gerry, the fifth vice president of the United States—under President James Madison—and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. (Due to his incessant fiddling with voter districts in Massachusetts to shape them in his favor, Elbridge Gerry infamously inspired the term "gerrymandering.")

Contrary to popular belief, no one owes you anything. Even your folks have met their obligations once you reach eighteen," Dani pointed out. "You could always refuse." "Not really." Red flooded Starr's face. "We have three choices. The dorm. You and Spence. Or no more money from our parents." "Yep." Ivy snickered. "They have us by the checkbook.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

One thing you must put aside in order to fulfill your destiny is conformity.

As the noted author and intellectual W .E. B. Du Bois says, we've given all of our economic power away. "When you owe another, your freedom is impaired," Du Bois counseled. "Your ability to decide your destiny is tainted by the amount you owe.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and ""experts"" have affirmed it. ""Studies show"" is to the modern secular college graduate what ""Scripture says"" is to the religious fundamentalist.