Quotes About Independence

Nunca te dejes pisotear por nadie, hijo. Este consejo es la única herencia que vas a tener.

No menos acertado fue al advertir que el movimiento independentista de Cataluña y el País Vasco, dos importantes regiones de España, sería en el futuro uno de los problemas más graves con los que tendría que bregar su país.

Solo la libertad le interesaba ahora para manejar su soledad a su capricho.

Mientras menor sea la autoridad que se ejerza sobre mi conducta, mientras ésta pueda ser determinada de manera más autónoma por mis propias motivaciones —mis necesidades, ambiciones, fantasías personales—, sin interferencia de voluntades ajenas, más libre soy. Éste es el concepto «negativo» de la libertad.

En verdad, fue un individualista recalcitrante, constitutivamente alérgico a ceder un ápice de su independencia y a disolverla en lo gregario, lo que, de hecho, lo convertía en un enemigo declarado de toda doctrina y formación política colectivista, como el fascismo, el nazismo o el comunismo, de los que fue adversario sistemático y pugnaz toda su vida.

How does it feel to say no to the one man to whom you have always said yes? How does it feel when you stand up to him and reject all he has never questioned?

You want the girl next door? Go next door!

the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)

Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny

The day I stood in front of the mirror and saw and loved my face and my hair for the first time in my life I was alone--completely utterly alone. We are always alone when we find the truth. The fact that we are alone makes the taste of affirmation no less sweet.

You know men!! As soon as you give in to them, they ignore you.

With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.

As for me, I sealed my act of rebellion against my mother's dictatorship by smoking the cigarette I'd stolen from my uncle two weeks earlier. Kofff! Kofff! Kofff!!! It was awful. But this was not the moment to give in. With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.

La libertà ha sempre un prezzo.

Get real up to a certain age, you need your parents, then later, they need you.

If there was one ideological rationale that had broad appeal, it was nationalism, which for many boiled down to a fervent desire to be left alone.

She told them that the peace and freedom promised by the nguy and their American controllers was illusory. Their country was at war and would remain at war until the invaders and traitors were gone. The real Vietnam would rise she said. It would be united. She envisioned a future where the free Vietnamese people worked together to improve life for all.

Some people say cats don't need a name. ...... But I say you need to give a cat a name, if only so they can have the pleasure of ignoring it. If that makes sense. from The Familiar vol. 3

The sad truth is that we live in a world that encourages selfishness, independence, convenience, isolation, and using people rather than loving them.

I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back... maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt than sharing your life with other actual human beings.

I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up in different and more complicated ways.

He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night.

Quando avrò una laurea in matematica, o in fisica, o in matematica e fisica, troverò un lavoro e guadagnerò un sacco di soldi e sarò in grado di pagare qualcuno che si occupi di me e cucini per me e mi lavi i vestiti, oppure troverò una donna che mi sposi e si prenda cura di me, che mi faccia un po' di compagnia per non rimanere da solo.