independence Quotes

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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“It 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, Self-Reliance

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“Even though I'm only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who's right and who's wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas and principles, and though it may sound odd coming from a teenager, I feel I'm more of a person than a child—I feel I'm...”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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“Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“For the principle of equality begets two tendencies; the one leads men straight to independence, and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road, to servitude.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“all it takes is a change of attitude: I'm not going to look for happiness anymore. From now on, I'm independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other people's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

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“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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“I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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