Quotes About Independence

The sword of contempt has kept the judiciary away from searching public scrutiny, particularly within the mainstream media. The judiciary is obviously happy to live with this situation as well.

When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

When I was 17, I moved to Sydney to study set design at NIDA.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Nothing has been more detrimental to me than to be considered a symbol, because I never stood for any of that... The civil rights movement thought they would do me harm over the years by disassociating themselves from me. Well, nothing in the world was more to my advantage. I was never one of them... I had my own divine mission.

Jose Marti, known as 'the Apostle of Cuban Independence,' was an influential poet, journalist, and political theorist who became a symbol for the Cuban people's bid for independence. The concepts of freedom, liberty, and self-determination feature prominently in his work.

To hold Old Glory, a symbol of freedom and liberty to many around the world, not just in the United States, this one means a lot.

The Catalonian movement is quite serious; I don't think it's simply symbolic. I think that they believe that Catalonia can be more successful on its own than as part of Spain.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.

Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

I had a horrifying experience but what the world fails to understand is that the handicapped need no sympathy, they need to be encouraged in whatever they do.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

I wasn't a person to cry or point fingers or find any sympathy.

I'm not a person who lives for sympathy.

Not just for tissue-holding folks, the empty nest syndrome is so pervasive, it can take over the most headstrong of parents.

Everything isn't about synergy.

It's one of the disadvantages of succeeding early. I missed simple things like having a driver's license. I think everyone has one. For so many people, a license is an obligation, but it wasn't for me. Licenses are often synonymous with autonomy, but I had my autonomy so early that I've had drivers at my disposal. It was never a priority.

At the end of the day, I want to be my own person, I want to be my own performer, and I want to have a finisher that's synonymous with me and not with my mentor.

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.