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Quotations about independence

Ayn RandFreedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

 - Ayn Rand

Tags:   freedom  independence  

James BaldwinIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

 - James Baldwin

Tags:   education  independence  mind  

Carl RogersIf we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

 - Carl Rogers

Tags:   conformity  independence  knowledge  learning  

Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags:   independence  opinions  solitude  

George KennanA foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all. And a ruthless, reckless insistence on attempting to stamp out everything that could conceivably constitute a reflection of improper foreign influence in our national life, regardless of the actual damage it is doing to the cost of eliminating it, in terms of other American values, is the one thing I can think of that should reduce us all to a point where the very independence we are seeking to defend would be meaningless, for we would be doing things to ourselves as vicious and tyrannical as any that might be brought to us from outside.

 - George Frost Kennan

Fyodor DostoevskyWhat man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever It may lead.

 - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tags:   choice  consequences  independence  

Mahatma GandhiIn the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by non-violence, there will be equal freedom for all. Everybody will be his own master. It is to join a struggle for such democracy that I invite you today. Once you realize this you will forget the differences between the Hindus and Muslims, and think of yourselves as Indians only, engaged in the common struggle for independence.

 - Mahatma Gandhi

Tags:   democracy  freedom  independence  peace  violence