(986 quotes found)
“for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.”
Albert Einstein
“Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.”
Jean Baudrillard
“I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.”
William Orville Douglas
“Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom!/ Throughout the day/ no time for memorandums now./ Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.”
Davy Crockett
“If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence”
Thomas Jefferson
“Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.”
Phyllis Diller
“The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully”
Epicurus
