Quotes About Independence

M-am plictisit de orice form? de agitaÅ£ie ÅŸi m-am convins c? toate nepl?cerile în via?? vin din participarea la un grup oarecare.Dac? ÅŸtiam lucrurile acestea demult,ast?zi eram mult mai înaintat.A trage consecinÅ£ele prostiilor altora e cea mai absurd? tragedie ce se poate îndura.

Mai bine s-o rupi cu toat? lumea decât s?-nghiÅ£i o umilint? dup? alta.

Children turn, and must turn, against their parents, and the parents can do nothing about it, for they are subject to a law which decrees the relations among all the living: i.e., that each engenders his own enemy.

If you love your independence, you must lend yourself, in order to protect it, to every turpitude; you must risk ignominy itself.

Lucidity is the only vice which makes us free—free in a desert.

Lucidity is the only vice which make us free - free in a desert.

What right have you to pray for me? I need no intercessor, I shall manage alone.

at this hour of the morning, I needed no one.

The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

Încetezi s? exiÈ™ti în orice regim, religios sau politic, care suprim? erezia, voinÈ›a de a merge contra dogmei sau a curentului.

Who among us, left to himself, would not take up space, air itself, and regard himself as its owner?

Of all those who suffered a long period of slavery, they alone have succeeded in resisting the charms of abulia.

En général, les hommes n'aspirent à s'instruire que dans la mesure où ils sont affranchis du joug de la tradition; car tant que celle-ci est maîtresse des intelligences, elle suffit à tout et ne tolère pas facilement de puissance rivale.

I'd rather die on my feet, than live upon my knees.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Land and Freedom!

We see another facet of this freedom when

Uno dei motivi della ribellione degli americani fu il sospetto che il governo della madrepatria volesse imporre alle colonie la Chiesa anglicana come religione di Stato. Nelle

Churchill era convinto della diseguaglianza delle razze e della superiorità della razza anglosassone; esaltava la vita militare, il valore etico della guerra e la sua necessità nella lotta per l'esistenza; glorificava l'impero britannico ed era deciso a conservarlo integro con qualsiasi mezzo, contro ogni aspirazione all'indipendenza dei popoli coloniali.

Solterón debió ser Diógenes, si no yerro, porque no se concibe que en su tonel hubiera espacio para mujer, y si con su famosa linterna buscaba un hombre honrado, con el Faro de Alejandría habría tenido que andar a cuestas en busca de una mujer de seso...

I want to see how I can exist by myself. I want to be allowed to live inside my memory.

I would rather be single. I cannot possibly say that.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.