Independence Quotes

• People continue to deploy the same justification of market society—that it would secure the personal independence of workers from arbitrary authority—long after it failed to deliver on its original aspiration. The result is a kind of political hemiagnosia: like those patients who cannot perceive one-half of their bodies, a large class of libertarian-leaning thinkers and politicians, with considerable public following, cannot perceive half of the economy: they cannot perceive the half that takes place beyond the market, after the employment contract is accepted.

  

  Elizabeth S. Anderson
  • Society
  • Market
  • Employment

• That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

  

  Gary Player
  • Spirit
  • Loss
  • Breed

• I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

  

  Alban Berg
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Talent

• What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Choice
  • Lead

• Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Equality
  • Independence
  • Key

• Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Independence
  • Distinction

• If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

  

  Bill Gosper
  • Mind
  • Errors
  • Machines

• Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Human
  • Healthy
  • Rights

• What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

  

  Plutarch
  • Mind
  • Public
  • Distract

• Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Humanity
  • Declaration
  • Emblem

• Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

  

  Winston Grime
  • Believe
  • Illusion
  • Masters

• In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Destroy
  • Independence
  • Ventures

• Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

  

  Al MacInnis
  • Independence
  • Steps
  • Resisting

• There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Despotism
  • Human Affairs
  • Collective Opinion

• A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Independence

• Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Culture
  • Independence
  • Behaviors

• I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels...

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Wind

• The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Independence
  • He Man

• Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Independence
  • Rebellion
  • Caprice

• The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Society
  • Political
  • Health

• Europe must be able to act independently precisely in the areas where Europe must act independently.

  

  Ursula von der Leyen
  • Act
  • Independence
  • Europe

• Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Freedom
  • Independence
  • Power Of Choice

• When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Government
  • Independence

• In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Independent
  • Police
  • Moved

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