Independence Quotes
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The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot!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
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I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.
Deborah Rhode
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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
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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
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Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
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The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
William P. Young
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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
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Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.
Nicolas Maduro
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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
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We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Interdependence is a higher value than independence
Stephen Covey
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Interdependency follows independence.
Stephen Covey
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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
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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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A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.
Cass Sunstein
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Independence was enriching, but most often it meant loss, isolation, and cultural deprivation.
Bernard Bailyn
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Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.
Kay Arthur
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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Financial independence means the freedom to choose.
Noel John Whittaker
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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
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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
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I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.
Mahatma Gandhi
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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
Friedrich Nietzsche