Independence Quotes
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I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.
William O. Douglas -
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
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Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
Alfie Kohn -
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 -
...success part of story of fifty years of Independence … Maintaining and strengthening political democracy at various levels has moved to new levels. Conducting successive free and fair elections, evolving and developing institutions like a relatively independent press, functioning opposition parties offering role choice, an independent and high calibre judiciary, free public debate which sometimes comes under assault, defying freedom of expression and creativity and secularism as the basic feature of our constitutional and social well being.
K. R. Narayanan -
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 -
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 -
I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.
Fady Joudah -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
Al MacInnis -
those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
William P. Young
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Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility.
Immanuel Kant -
Tweens are at the place in life where they are beginning to assert their independence from Mom and Dad.
Atoosa Rubenstein -
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 -
Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
Winston Grime -
Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.
R. Madhavan
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Europe must be able to act independently precisely in the areas where Europe must act independently.
Ursula von der Leyen -
I was born with a fierce need for independence.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child -
The fire of independence is burning just as bright in my breast as in the most fiery breast in this country, but ways and methods differ.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!
Fyodor Dostoevsky