Solitude is independence.

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

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear and anger, do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent, and he is never bored and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

The tendency to aggression is an innate independent instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

The beauty of independence departure actions that rely on themselves.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence, race is the principle of physical analogy.

Mad adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

In England, the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here, the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Charity is injurious, unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Mickey Mouse is to me a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

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

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose to respond to change.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer, independent reality exists, the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth, would still be there if no one was looking.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

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

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing and a mere bubble except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

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.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked earned money and was independent at 18.

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.

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

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

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one every moment.

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.

Even though I love solar and love wind like most people do I like the renewable sources they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created we gain no scientific explanation.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration, simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage and he expects your absolute loyalty.

[In most boardrooms ] collegiality trumped independence... would be like belching at the dinner table.

First by 2020 North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.