Independence Quotes - Page 34

• Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Losing, Supermarkets

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• Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, May, Virtue

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• In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, House, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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• If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

  George Washington

  Party, Mean, Blood

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.182

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• That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

  Robert Southey

  Pride, Charity, Shame

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• Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

  Susan B. Anthony

  Independent, Giving, Bread

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Silence, Opinion, Quiet

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.177, Applewood Books

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• To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Welfare, Alms

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.237

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• in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

  Erica Jong

  Dream, Men, Rescue

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• What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

  Plutarch

  Home, Men, Mind

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.479, 谷月社

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• Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Dignity, Human Dignity, Humans

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• Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Soul, Unions

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.

  Barbara Holland

  Home, Heart, Cat

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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• Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

  Idries Shah

  Daughter, Conceit, Premature

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.109, Octagon Press Ltd

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• It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

  Hannah Arendt

  Individual Strength, Groups, Turns

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

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• the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

  Hannah Arendt (2009). “Responsibility and Judgment”, p.203, Schocken

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• Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Conventions, Constitutional Convention

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• I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence...

  Peyton Manning

  Boys, Littles, Able

  "Online Extra: Peyton Manning's IMG Dream Team". Interview with Diane Brady, www.bloomberg.com. July 12, 2004.

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• For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

  Glenda Jackson

  Pride, Men, Quality

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• Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Mediocrity, Intolerance, Props

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Artist, Spirit, Humans

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• In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Communication, Heart, Successful

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1878). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878”

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• Without Virginia, as we must all acknowledge--without her Patrick Henry among the people, her Lees and Jefferson in the forum, and her Washington in the field--I will not say that the cause of American liberty and American independence must have been ultimately defeated--no, no, there was no ultimate defeat for that cause in the decrees of the Most High; but it must have been delayed, postponed, perplexed, and to many eyes and hearts rendered seemingly hopeless.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Heart, Eye, Virginia

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1876). “Oration on the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: Delivered in the Music Hall, at the Request of the City Government, Boston, 4 July, 1876”, p.22

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• We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Party, Believe, Independent

  "CBS Evening News", "Campaign '08" segment,, June 20, 2007.

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