Independent Quotes

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. (George Orwell)
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. View quote
Václav Havel
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. View quote
Daniel Webster
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. (James Baldwin)
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. View quote
Dylan Moran
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. View quote
Pauline Kael
All men are by nature born equally free and independent. View quote
George Mason
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. View quote
John Locke
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. View quote
Lee Strasberg
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. View quote
Andrew Jackson
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. View quote
Margaret Mead
I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress. (Kal Penn)
A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease. View quote
Elizabeth Gaskell
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires. A world without God or purpose may seem harsh or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist. View quote
Lawrence M. Krauss
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. View quote
Christopher Hitchens