Independence Quotes

Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

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

The States are nations.

I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

Americans who do not celebrate Independence Day: pets.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom and our independence. We will never, ever sign bad trade deals. America first again. America first!

I'm very, very strong on energy independence, as you know, and I think that's the most conservative position. And I have the most conservative position on that.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

Every country has its own diplomacy. Being part of Europe doesn't mean giving up one's independence or no longer being able to take the initiative.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown.