Joan Severance Quotes

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak.

You can have a good time and kick some butt - they're not mutually exclusive.

Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

I can do whatever I want.

Whatever you want to do, go do it.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Love does not imply pacifism.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.” “No, you won’t.” Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving.

When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

If you wanna go somewhere, you can do; nothing is stopping you.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.