(986 quotes found)
“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence”
David Ben-Gurion
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.”
Chauncey Depew
“All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago”
Rudyard Kipling
“Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage”
Marianne Moore
“All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore”
Herman Melville
“There are four types of persons, the ‘dead’, who deny the Lord and declare that they alone exist, independent and self-directed, the ‘sick’, who call upon the Lord when some calamity befalls them or when they feel temporarily deserted by the unusual source of succor, the ‘dull’, who know that God is the eternal companion and watchman, but who remember it only off and on when the idea is potent and powerful, and lastly the ‘healthy’, who have steady belief in the Lord and who live in His Comforting Creative Presence always”.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.”
Jane Austen
“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.”
Camille Paglia
“A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.”
Potter Stewart
