“ The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. ”
- Kwame Nkrumah- Copy
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“ It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test. ”
- Mahalia Jackson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. ”
- William Cobbett- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.7K
“ There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 928
“ A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. ”
- Elizabeth Gaskell- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 1.2K
“ In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 263
“ In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. ”
- Pauline Kael- Copy
- 1.6K
“ It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
- 1.2K
“ It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity. ”
- Sylvia Porter- Copy
- 750
“ Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
- 219
“ Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
- 2.2K
“ No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
- 1.1K
“ No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 284
“ Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 2K
“ The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ”
- Paul E. Gray- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
- 3K
“ The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
- 3.2K
“ There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price. ”
- Shirley Chisholm- Copy
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