Quotes About Independence

You're the one who has to live with your choice. Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!

Usually spending any amount of time with someone was a forcible reminder of how much I'd rather be alone.

Like tonight, when everyone dressed as zombies, and you wore that. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?" "Not particularly," I said, willing her to finally understand how much I had changed, and how very little she knew about me.

Ezra," Cassidy said, sounding tremendously sorry. "You're better off without me. And I don't want to be around when you realize it.

Submitting to rules one doesn't understand is difficult, but it's a good way to counteract the carnal desire for personal independence. There may not be spiritual merit in choosing to eat two dishes instead of three at a meal, but the humility that comes with agreeing to submit to another's decision that one do so is transformative.

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Remaining independent and functioning autonomously in the university is necessary, especially for the critical intellectual who does not see institutional favors, decorations, and promotions as the goal of our work but understands that the creation of critical masses of minoritized subjects of all types within this stubborn place and other like it is the prize.

when Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire raised the flag of revolution

declared their independence.

tempted by Hannibal's offer to ensure the 'liberty of the Hellenes

Flamininus was as good at his word. The legions departed. It was now up to the Greek city-states to manage their own affairs

by a single proclamation all the Greeks inhabiting both Asia and Europe became free

you could beach your ship wherever you could find a sandy shore, put up your tent

compelling the Spartans to grant them their liberty as an autonomous city-state?

The Spartans would never afterwards sign up to any treaty that included recognition of Messene as a free polis.

beyond its own borders without encroaching on the autonomy of another.

of member-states from enlisting in foreign armies.

not only for those who had lost their lives but also for the 'liberty of Hellas

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

It was her life to live not take.

What people think of me is none of my business. Rodney Crowell paraphrasing the Greek Stoic Philosopher, Epictetus 55-135 AD

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

lado amargo, incómodo e irónico: la independencia acaba degradada por un ridículo emperador, la reforma liberal desemboca en la dictadura y la revolución acaba en manos de burócratas autoritarios. Me temo que la transición a la democracia acabe naufragando gracias a un demagogo populista