Independence Quotes

• You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Character
  • Courage
  • Build

• Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Independence
  • Swaraj
  • Dominion

• I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Up
  • Time
  • Future

• 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
  • Amazing
  • Independent
  • Financial

• Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Desire
  • Mean
  • Abundance

• 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
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Terrifies

• Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • People
  • Culture
  • Mistake

• We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Spirit
  • Independence

• I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • English
  • Independence
  • India

• I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Government
  • Chinese
  • Self

• 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
  • Freedom
  • Enemies
  • Liberals

• Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Problem
  • Independent
  • Weakness

• 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
  • Trying
  • Independence
  • Declaration

• Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.

  

  Gerda Lerner
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Meaningful

• She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had taught him what no Greek mother ever taught a son: the basic humdrum skills required for independence.

  

  Alison Fell
  • Independence
  • Challenged
  • Grown-Up

• To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Start
  • Example
  • Independence

• I was born with a fierce need for independence.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Independence

• Solitude is independence.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Solitude
  • Independence

• Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Independence
  • Terms
  • Civil Disobedience

• Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Desire

• I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Independence
  • Instinct

• Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Spirit
  • Lord
  • Storm

• Sanitation is more important than Independence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Important
  • Independence
  • Sanitation

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