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“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

Heart Littles Home Fear Rooms Powerful Police Independent Soldier Thrown Panic Dictatorship Dictator Mice Forbidden Stirring Unspoken Pedestal Independent Thought Bayonets

Author:Winston Churchill

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

Way Independent Punishment Self Determination Independent Thought Crime And Punishment

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.”

Self Whole Order Choices Social Responsibility Consequence Independent Obsession Disconnected Social Order Self Destruct

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.”

Term Common Principles Subjects Mankind Argument Independent Common Sense Command Firm Justify Compelled

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”

People Thinking Hard Hard Work Independent Independent Thought

Author:Sue Grafton

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”

Source: Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

“Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.”

Thinking Law Judging Comfortable Independent Lazy Independent Thought Demian

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.”

Men World Today Desire Force Freedom Powerful Liberty Eternal Capitalism Independent Communism Bombs Most Powerful World Today Missiles

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

Source: Selected poems

“But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.”

Persons Independent Selected

Author:Stephen Breyer

“To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.”

Men Needs Giving Feelings Would Be Age Law Passion Nations Waiting Enjoy Needed Glory Concern Independent Fruit Superiors Labour Nevertheless Fullness Affinity Superior Intelligence

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.”

States Independent Guilt

Author:Franz Kafka

“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”

Inspirational Believe Leadership Fronts Independent Long Walk To Freedom

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”

Science Nations Freedom Liberty Speech Independent Censorship Free Speech Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Freedom And Liberty Freedom Of Thought Prohibition Freedom Liberty Freedom Of The Press Political Will Freedom To Read Liberty Of Speech

Book:The Real Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Real Benjamin Franklin

“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.”

People Use Independent Paradox Initiative Independent Thought Oxymoron Wall And Piece

Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.”

People Has Beens Helping Suffering Realizing Independent Oneself Circles Thrust Arriving Be Here Now

Author:Ram Dass

“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”

Men Women Virtue Feminism Degrees Independent Vain Misogyny Norm Vindication

Book:Vindication of the Rights of Women

Source: Vindication of the Rights of Women

“Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.”

Thinking Stills Lines Party Records Mines Republican Empty Independent Democrat Despite Voting Consistent Compliment Senators Mccain

Author:Sarah Vowell

“If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.”

Ifs World Should Spiritual Opinion Should Have Independent Have Faith Faith In Yourself Have Faith In Yourself

Author:Deepak Chopra

“It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.”

May Persons Self Individual Consciousness Doubt Independent Recognition No Doubt Self Consciousness

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

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Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Source: Jane Eyre

“No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency”

Source: Washington's Political Legacies: With a Biographical Outline of His Life and Character

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”

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Author:William S. Burroughs

“Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.”

Ifs World Mind Heart States Chance Knowing Evidence Independent Despite Optimistic Hopeful State Of Mind Persistent Keep The Faith Being Optimistic

Author:William Sloane Coffin

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”

People Want Liberty Independent Independence Independent Thought Independent Thinking

Book:The Social Significance of the Modern Drama

Source: The Social Significance of the Modern Drama

“Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.”

People Kids Fighting Simple Cutting Century Late Independent Luck British Opponents Customs Cherish Afghanistan Good Luck Cracked Hindi Kites Hassan

Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.”

Strong Taste Independent

Book:Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.”

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Author:Azar Nafisi

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

“But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.”

Long Strong Independent Brave Mistaken Reckless Spoiled Being Spoiled

Book:Dark Horse

Source: Dark Horse

“I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.”

Earth Law Nations Generations Judgment Independent Command

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature.”

Men World Whole Existence Wonder Evidence Miracle Independent Superiors Sane Falsehood Assistance Scorn Signs And Wonders

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Self Social Creation Duty Claims Independent Privilege Dependent Arrogant Brutes Insperational Self Contained

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”

Firsts Success Opinion Creativity Achieve Conditions Independent Formal Public Opinion

Book:Hegel's Philosophy of right

Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right

“It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.”

Knows Want Littles Individual Effort Particular Independent Emergence

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.”

“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”

Men Heart Hate Feminism Empowerment I Hate Independent Feminist Women Empowerment Empowered Women Women Strength Inspirational Feminist I Hate Men

Author:Anais Nin

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”

People Inspirational Opinion Mouths Independent Independent Thought

Author:Anne Frank

“All variables are independent.”

Independent Variables

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.”

Men World Looks Capable Smart Independent Look Up Nerves Charming

Book:You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection

Source: You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection

“The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.”

Real Political Fighting Violence Tasks Independent Institutions Criticize Political Violence

Book:The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.”

Independent Breakfast At Tiffanys

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.”

Knows Want Giving Littles Together Found Names Waiting Poor Havens One Day Rivers Independent Inconvenient

Author:Truman Capote

“I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”

Source: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

“Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.”

Children Persons Two Different Self Reason Parent Teach Discipline Independent Obedient Submissive Autonomous

Author:Thomas Szasz

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