Quotes About Independence

Cruise around by yourself and see what happens to you.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be bitch.

No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.

Bana bak, Billy, bir s?r vereyim sana. Ne varsa çarÅŸaflarda var, Billy. Kad?nlardan uzak dur, atlardan uzak dur, sonra durdu, kartallardan uzak dur, Billy. Atlar? seven atlar? bulur, kartallar? seven kartallar? bulur. Durdu, ba??n? çarÅŸaf?n alt?na soktu. Gitmem gerekiyor dedi Uçan Billy Turner. Kad?nlar? seven içkiyi bulur dedi William Campbell. Atlar? seven...

His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries. My choice was to go there to find him beyond all people. Beyond all people in the world. Now we are joined together and have been since noon. And no one to help either one of us. Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. I must surely remember to eat the tuna after it gets light.

Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn't worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.

Only dead fish swim with the current.

looked at the tires carefully, looking for cuts or stone bruises. Everything seemed in good condition. It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not.

To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

The warrior does not need a crowd; they need a tribe.

Si la esclavitud sigue siendo una opción, nos encontraremos abdicando a nuestra libertad. Sencillamente, por lo general no lo llamamos esclavitud. Lo llamamos seguridad. Lo llamamos comodidad. Lo llamamos responsabilidad.

Questa sventura non la cambierei con la tua servitù, sappilo bene

Mr. Turner gets mad when I say, "I don't work for you, I work for the children." But it's true. Isn't it? I'll find out when I get fired, I guess.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

A man can stand up

THE fourteenth of April, 1775.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills . . . we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

No woman should give any man the power to shatter her romantic ideals.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy.

Rather than inhibiting a couple's sexuality, recognizing the third has a tendency to add spice, not least because it reminds us that we do not own our partners. We

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."9

It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. Maybe he can love her, but it's clearly much harder for him to desire her. There's no tension.