Quotes About Independence

Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?

and how could Neumann Two not have known, but of course he didn't, because that is how things are with Neumann Two, with everybody in this unit, in this army, in this world, they do as they're told, they get scared, they move about with only themselves in mind. Name me someone who does not.

there comes a point where the pressure of relentless fear perforates rationality and the body moves independently of the mind.

how could Neumann Two not have known, but of course he didn't, because that is how things are with Neumann Two, with everybody in this unit, in this army, in this world, they do as they're told, they get scared, they move about with only themselves in mind. Name me someone who does not.

É certo — pergunta Jutta — fazer algo apenas porque todas as outras pessoas estão fazendo?

A person can get up and leave her life. The world is that big.

Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations. And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

Anything can be lived around, so long as it's only you who has to do it.

A second birth," Maria Montessori called it, when a child can move away from his mother on his own. And indeed Owen does seem like a new child, rarely crying, constantly at work on getting himself somewhere else.

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?

Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers.

For him, bravery was not an assertion of collective defiance and solidarity among colleagues but a solitary, obstinate act of will.

and am able to say exactly what I like without being called to account, and have complete freedom to do whatever I choose.

He slept there that night, without any of his guards.

Instead, he freed them all.

Il vantaggio più grande che la libertà offre agli esseri umani è quello di allontanarsi da ciò che infastidisce.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story.

Don't ask the way of those who know it, you might not get lost.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

You must do what you want.

They can't make you do anything you don't want to do.