Independence Quotes - Page 34

• I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Individuality, Causes, Committed

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• All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.

  Ellen Goodman

  Government, People, Adults

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• It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Eye, Deception, World

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 14 (1919)

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• Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

  Haim Ginott

  Teenager, Self, Feels

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• All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.

  Herman Melville

  Thinking, Wind, Sea

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.104

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• No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Real, Feminism, Foundation

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• The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, Today, Way

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• There are worse places to be than on your own.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Parent, Backyards

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Eye Scream”, 2 13 61

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• In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Liberty, England

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

  Carl Sagan

  Psychology, Metaphor, Human Condition

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, People, Savages

  John Stuart Mill (1861). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.108

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• There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

  John Stuart Mill

  Political, Limits, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.14

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• Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

  Cyril Connolly

  Marriage, Achieve, Women Beauty

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• The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Strength, Peculiar, Purpose

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Hands, Community, Black

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• It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

  Don DeLillo

  Culture, Use, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I too am a government.

  Gustave Courbet

  Government

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• Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Focus, Different

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Country, White, Racism

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• Independence didn't have to be exile.

  Julia Alvarez

  Exile

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• The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Political, Bother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Rights, Should Have

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• The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

  William Barclay

  Prosperity, Danger

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