Independent Quotes

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 five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Without a free and independent media, true democracy is unattainable.

Every effort has been made to ensure the report is as unbiased as possible. Companies that are independent have been involved, and it was vital the survey should be as impartial as possible.

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

The universally praised independent, bipartisan commission established in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks provides an ideal model for how such an investigation should be undertaken, ... That panel was created after the families of 9/11 victims concluded that the Republican-led Congress could not adequately investigate the Bush Administration. Since the political reality has not changed, we owe it to the victims of Katrina to again create an independent Commission free of political bias.

The hard part about being independent is that major media is not supportive of independent artists because we're not selling tires or soda. The only thing that we want to sell is our message.

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent.

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.

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

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.