Quotes on Independence

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty... that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems _x000D_ that political independence disappears without economic independence _x000D_ that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.

If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

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