Quotes About Independence

Our sole task now is to express unhesitating, undoubted, complete respect for everything swadeshi, to generate the same respect in the hearts of the unpatriotic. Ashamed of our country for so long, we have weakened ourselves with the poison of slavery. If each of us opposes this by personal example, we can claim a space for future work.

I let everyone know that I don't follow any restrictions, and suffer everyone's contempt in silence.

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?" "The outside world may want you," he replied.

their power till they are not only reasonably free from the tyranny of Nature and human neighbours, but have

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

Self-service' puts all classes on the same shopping level, doing the work for themselves; the

There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul." Ely in Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

The one thing you can say about people for sure, is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

Money is a country all its own.

Podría ser que solo cuando ya es demasiado tarde para escapar nos demos cuenta de que siempre hemos sido libres.

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

Might it be true that half of freedom is the willingness to take it when it's offered?

You have to forget about the boys,' he said. 'For a while at least... They'll devour you... They can't help it. It's in their nature. They'll take it all until there's nothing left.

That tribe was one to which nearly all the men in this country belonged, and it defined itself through a fear of women combined with an utter dependence on them.

I saw, in other words, that I was alone, and saw the gift and the burden of that state.

It was as if some breeze kept wafting toward me, bearing a tormenting scent of freedom- and that same torment suddenly seemed to have bothered and pursued me for too much of my life.

The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

I said it was true that the question of whether to leave or remain was one we usually asked ourselves in private, to the extent that it could almost be said to constitute the innermost core of self-determination.

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

She was, I saw, goading herself on: she wanted to Traverse boundaries, as though to prove to herself that she was free.

No, I don't want to be completed. I prefer to try outrunning whatever's after me. I prefer to stay out, like kids on a summer evening stay out, and won't come in when they're called. I don't want to go in.

I was working, somehow, to free her from myself, when it appeared that what she needed was to take some of me along with her!

I told her she would always be able to find a white man to be obliterated by, if that was what she decided she wanted.

Now and again,' she continued presently, 'I have met people who have freed themselves from their family relationships. Yet there often seems to be a kind of emptiness in that freedom, as though in order to dispense with their relatives they have had to dispense with a part of themselves. Like the man trapped in the glacier who cut off his own arm,' she said, with a faint smile.