independence quotes

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

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

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

I don’t want followers.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Nobody is my boss.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Now I do whatever I want.