Independence Quotes

• Western, individualistic culture invites us to embrace our independence and champion our ability to do this all on our own, but the life of Jesus invites us to embrace a healthy interdependency on others. The radical message of Jesus invites us to express and wrestle with our faith in a lifestyle of unbroken community with others. In Western culture however, living in community often is against the flow of how our society works. As culture has morphed deeper and deeper into a strictly individualistic-oriented culture, we now find ourselves in a world where it is not uncommon to not even know the name of our neighbors in the house next to us. What’s even scarier is that we might not even know the person sitting in the church pew next to us.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Lifestyle

• For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit of this goal, Jews seek - are morally required to seek - independence of other people's charity. They therefore seek safety - are morally required to seek it - through the existence of a Jewish state. Except among the theologically or humanly perverse, Zionism - the commitment to the safety and genuine sovereignty of the State of Israel - is not negotiable.

  

  Emil Fackenheim
  • Children
  • Goal
  • Safety

• When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Opinion
  • Independence
  • Congress

• Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Idea
  • Independence
  • Liberties

• In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

  

  Raul Castro
  • Party
  • Marketing
  • Accounts

• Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

  

  William Hague
  • People
  • Country
  • Common

• Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Wish
  • Space
  • Revolve

• Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Energy
  • Environmental
  • Components

• In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.

  

  Wright Patman
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Politics

• I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Remember
  • Months
  • Periods

• The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Beauty
  • Civilization
  • Dwell

• A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Blessed

• The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

  

  Karl Hess
  • Modern
  • Scare
  • Declaration

• Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Independence
  • Interdependence

• Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

  

  Kay Warren
  • Vulnerability
  • Committed
  • Maintaining

• The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

  

  Paul Gillmor
  • History
  • Sacred
  • Declaration

• The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Country
  • Exercise
  • Criticism

• The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

  

  William Barclay
  • Danger
  • Independence
  • Prosperity

• We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.

  

  Michael Mullen
  • Energy
  • Middle
  • Shapes

• You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must administer to his wants again; to put that person in a position to earn his own subsistence is true charity; in this way you direct his feet in the path of true independence, he is then only dependent on his own exertions and on the blessings of his God.

  

  Daniel H. Wells
  • Giving
  • Path
  • Charity

• We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.

  

  Nguyen Minh Triet
  • Independence
  • Economic growth
  • Reunification

• Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"

  

  Hu Shih
  • Opportunity
  • Reading
  • Special

• Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Value
  • Enough
  • Independent

• But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

  

  George Washington
  • Independence

1

...

11

12

13

14

15

previous

next