Quotes About Independence

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. —Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

Alexis was at that age, seventeen, when mothers come into view as tyrants or imbeciles or both.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

I can't be your ghost right now. I need to exist

Granada had never been on the water before and she marveled at how the creek was a living thing with a will of its own, like an untamed horse challenging her to ride upon its back.

You're like a lot of others, thinking everything come from the white man. Long as you believe that, you'll be blind to your own lights. You got to break the lie.

Now I couldn't care less. I just feel like I can write what I want to write, but don't feel I have anything to prove anymore. I think it's very much internal. I don't care about how others judge me.

When I asked her how she would have fared had she remained out there on her own, fishing for information online and trying to figure out where to begin, she replied that she might eventually have made a successful transition, but the process would have been difficult and demoralizing.

Richard, you know I love my family, but that's no reason why I should have to acknowledge them in broad daylight.

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

A true parent is one who fights battles on our behalf when we are young and defenceless, but who, once we have matured, gives us the inner strength to fight for ourselves.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

Achilles roars at his mother: "...Do not attempt to keep me from the fight, though you love me; you cannot make me listen.

You're not our leader,' Dave said. 'No, but I know what I'm doing, which is a nice alternative.' - Lucy

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking

La libertad es una fantasía, siempre tiene un precio.

What's not to like for a boy who's running from the world? I'd say you're nicely sorted now.

One other thing, Esmira," Solomon said as they stepped through. "I'm not your master. If this should be the last hour of your life, try not to need one.

You will be forced away from the warmth of people's homes to dwell by yourself in lonely places.

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

A runner must be able to cover a lot of ground in a day, but he is unusually well-treated and cared for; on his discretion and integrity – since he is intrusted with the most confidential matters – the welfare, or more, of his owners may depend. Occasionally a messenger of this kind for the sake of revenge destroys life-long relations of friendship. However, that induces few individuals to learn writing, and thus make themselves independent of their slaves for life;

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.