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Quotes About Independence

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
~ Ken Robinson
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
~ Richard Dawkins
The first of earthly blessings, independence.
~ Edward Gibbon
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.
~ Rajneesh
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
~ Steve Schmidt
Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence
~ Albert Camus, A Happy Death
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."
~ Jeff Bezos
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.
~ Melina Mercouri
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
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism
~ Francis Parker Yockey
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
~ Hermann Hesse
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.
~ Henry Steele Commager
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
~ Erma Bombeck
Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
~ Thomas Jefferson
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
~ Harriet Martineau
Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
~ E. F. Schumacher
Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people
~ Stephen Covey
We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.
~ Dianne Feinstein
There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.
~ Joe Swanberg
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom
~ Swami Vivekananda
This state of independence shall be!
~ Jon Anderson