Quotes of Independent - somelinesforyou

“ It's 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

“ The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. ”

- Kwame Nkrumah

“ 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

“ 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

“ It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. ”

- William Cobbett

“ A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ 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

“ Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ 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

“ Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. ”

- John D. Rockefeller

“ Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Genius is independent of situation. ”

- Charles Churchill

“ In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. ”

- Karl Marx

“ In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. ”

- Pauline Kael

“ 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

“ It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ”

- James Baldwin

“ I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity. ”

- Sylvia Porter

“ 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

“ 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

“ No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ 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

“ Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ 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

“ 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

“ The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ”

- Paul E. Gray

“ The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ 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
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