898 Quotes About Independence

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today’s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence..

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

PEACE IS A SACRIFICED VERSION OF FREEDOM.

犠牲なしに平和？アイソレーションが不足していますか？真珠の殻Gisei nashi ni heiwa? Aisorēshon ga fusoku shite imasu ka? Shinju no karaPEACE WITHOUT SACRIFICE?WOULD ISOLATION SUFFICE?PEARL IN A SHELL

Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.