Be Independent Quotes

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

The world is independent of my will.

As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.

Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues "Democrat, Republican, and Independent" agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

If I am the nominee I will not run as an independent.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation.