(986 quotes found)
“Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.”
Deborah Tannen
“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation”
Charles Darwin
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .”
Charlotte Bronte
“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”
Emma Goldman
“The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence”
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
“And now the really difficult part: We have to rebuild Iraq into a strong and independent nation that will one day hate the United States.”
David Letterman
“The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members”
Harry S Truman
“The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.”
John Adams
“MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.”
Ambrose Bierce
