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Quotes About Autarky

The first of earthly blessings, independence.
~ Edward Gibbon
A state or person that depends on others factually stays deprived of actual freedom.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
~ Epicurus
The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.
~ Epicurus
ideas could stand on their own.
~ Eric Metaxas
Fascism is not an article for export.
~ Benito Mussolini
My real soul...? It's real only when it's independent...
~ Ayn Rand
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
I'm for economic independence.
~ Charles Evers
The world is independent of my will.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Being independent is everything. That's all I know.
~ Damon Dash
There is no such thing as being too independent.
~ Victoria Billings
Independence is the most important thing of all in life. I say for my part that a man lives in vain until he is independent. People who aren't independent aren't people. A man who isn't his own master is as bad as a man without a dog.
~ Halldór Kiljan Laxness
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
~ W. Averell Harriman
The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
No hay libertad sin independencia económica.
~ Isabel Allende
No somos estúpidos. Si necesitásemos que nos salvaran, ya nos habríamos salvado a nosotros mismos. No, no somos nosotros los estúpidos, sino sus agudos razonamientos, que solo le proporcionan respuestas equivocadas.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties.
~ Texas Bix Bender
The purpose of the plan was to make Germany self-sufficient in four years, so that a wartime blockade would not stifle it.
~ William L. Shirer
most of the regime's practices, whether via direct repression or the punitive dimension which autarky inserted into everyday life, can be encapsulated as teaching the defeated the meaning of their defeat.15
~ Helen Graham
its own survival into the future depended on its ability to harness economic change in order, in the immediate term, to resolve the crisis of near state bankruptcy caused by its own economic policies (autarky),
~ Helen Graham
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes its better to be independent, then to be getting screwed over.
~ Unknown