Quotes About Independence

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

I've been thinking about it, since you said it, " said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. "And I've concluded that I don't want to be a captain. But I find I like the thought that I could be.

It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.

So I'm alone. I have no one. Is that what you're telling me?" - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

It is always in the creating your path, not in the fitting in the society.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.