Independence Quotes - Page 32

• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Adventure, Journey

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• The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

  Lech Walesa

  Fighting, Loss, Moments

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• Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

  B. Carroll Reece

  Energy, Looks, Today

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• The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Sea, Groups, World

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

  Sarah Vowell

  War, Thinking, Sea

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Mar 25, 2010

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• Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

  Paulo Coelho

  Freedom, Shepherds, Longing

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• Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to."

  Kenny Smith

  Way, Clarity, Expenses

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• Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Numbers, Debtors

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• The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.

  James Surowiecki

  Independent, Long, People

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.41, Anchor

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• That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

  Thomas Huxley

  Independent, Political, Public Opinion

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.194, Cambridge University Press

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• LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Independent, Editing, Newspapers

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spring, Women, Challenges

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• Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Character, Order, Political

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Freedom, Humanity, Behaviour

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• To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Frustrated, Relief

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Struggle, Ukraine

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• The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Jobs, Recovery, New Job

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• If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Freedom, America, Liberty

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

  Eddie Vedder

  Mom, Dad, Kids

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• The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you
  to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The
  principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

  Frederick Douglass

  Gratitude, 4th Of July, Pride

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

  Friedrich Engels

  Law, Giving, Doe

  "Anti-Dühring". Book by Frederick Engels, Part I, Chapter XI: "Morality and Law", www.marxists.org. 1877.

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• It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

  Robert Greene

  People, Fool, Maintaining

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.12, Profile Books

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• But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

  Martin Buber

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

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• The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

  Robert Graves

  Taken, Granted

  Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

  Graham Norton

  Victim

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