Quotes About Independence

What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When

CzÅ'owiek nie musi ?y? wÅ›ród mÄ™tów spoÅ'eczeÅ"stwa, aby nie usÅ'ysze? nic o mÄ™tach towarzystwa.

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to have it. She doesn't know which is th' worst.

Tis a barbaric fancy, said Roxholm thoughtfully as he turned the stem of his glass, keeping his eyes fixed on it as though solving a problem for himself. A barbaric fancy that a woman needs a master. She who is strong enough is her own conqueror--as a man should be master of himself.

All that I do is right—for me. I make it so by doing it. Do you think that I am conquered by the laws that other women crouch and whine before, because they dare not break them, though they long to do so? I am my own law—and the law of some others.

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.

She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked!

M? tôi v?n b?o có hai Ä'i?u t?i t? có th? ??n vá»›i má»™t ??a tr?, Ä'ó là không bao gi? ???c làm theo Ä'i?u mình mu?n, ho?c là luôn luôn ???c làm v?y.

I was thinking, she said. Beg my pardon immediately, said Miss Minchin. I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude, said Sara; but I won't beg your pardon for thinking.

Las dos peores cosas que le pueden suceder a un niño es no salirse nunca con al suya, o salirse siempre con ella. Susan Sowerby

The Bastille had melted away, the prisoners no longer existed.

It used to seem as if she had all the sky and the world to herself.

and felt it as well to make his own freedom from responsibility quite clear without any delay.

I am my own law–and the law of some others.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

And, I think, for those of us who came of age with the women's movement, there's always the fear that it's not real, you're not really allowed to determine your own life. It may be pulled back at any moment.

One pleasure of being old, I realize, is that you're free. Beyond caring what the neighbors might think.

Daddy Jack and Fanny don't care what I do as long as I stay out of the kitchen. She looms over the stove, madly coating everything she cooks with cayenne pepper and several shakes of Tabasco.

I never saw the necessity to attend all those classes, so many days a week, or purchase unreadable texts when so much fiction and poetry waited in the bookstore.

I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.