Quotes About Independence

State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished;

Quem pode calcular o que se perde com a multidão de inteligências, a coexistirem com caracteres tímidos, que não se aventuram a incorporar-se em nenhuma corrente arrojada, vigorosa e independente de opinião, com o temor de que ela os leve a alguma coisa que possa ser taxada de irreligiosa ou imoral?

where to place the limit—how to make the fitting adjustment between individual independence and social control—is a subject on which nearly everything remains to be done.

Aquellos que tienen asegurado el sustento y que no desean favores de los hombres que están en el Poder, ni de ninguna corporación o del público, nada tienen que temer de la franca profesión de todas las opiniones, a no ser que se piense o se hable mal de ellos

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.

I am naturally concerned that the Central Intelligence Agency is displeased with me. But then it is an organ of the United States, and not every judgement of that country has been for the best. Please note it was created in Anno Domini 1776. I would point out to you that my local pub, The Bear and Ragged Staff, is two centuries older than your country, and if that's a problem for you I don't care, and nor does my boss.

It was by and through the power of God, that the fathers of this country framed the Declaration of Independence, and also that great palladium of human rights, the Constitution of the United States.

meaning where meaning is genuinely to be found — in families, in friends, in the passage of seasons, in nature, in simple ceremonies and rituals, in curiosity, generosity, compassion, and service to others, in a decent independence and privacy, in all the free and inexpensive things out of which real families, real friends, and real communities are built

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence—

education and schooling are, as we all have experienced, mutually exclusive terms.

People individually do best for everyone when they do best for themselves, when they aren't commanded too much or protected against the consequences of their own folly.

Free men and women are often very eccentric.

At the heart of any school reforms that aren't simply tuning the mudsill mechanism lie two beliefs: 1) That talent, intelligence, grace, and high accomplishment are within the reach of every kid, and 2) That we are better off working for ourselves than for a boss.

When we want better families, better neighbors, better friends, and better schools we shall turn our backs on national and global systems, on expert experts and specialist specialties and begin to make our own schools one by one, far from the reach of systems.

Ya kendi senaryonuzu yazars?n?z veya bir baÅŸkas?n?n senaryosundan size biçilen rolü oynars?n?z.

Size ezberlemeniz gerektiÄŸi söylenen ÅŸeyleri ezberleyerek özgür olamazs?n?z.

Take a second to think about these utopian algorithms — dividing people from one another and from their natural allies, is right at the head of the list, but all require wiping the slate as clean of close emotional ties — even ties to yourself! — as possible. Family, deep friendships, church, culture, tradition, anything which might contradict the voice of authority, is suspect.

Construímos uma estilo de vida que depende de que as pessoas continuem fazendo o que lhes mandam fazer por não saberem como dizer a si mesmas o que deve ser feito.

if children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would grow older but never truly grow up.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

The home-schooling movement has quietly grown to a size where one and half million young people are being educated entirely by their own parents; last month the education press reported the amazing news that, in their ability to think, children schooled at home seem to be five or even ten years ahead of their formally trained peers.

This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It's the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.