A Quote by Oliver Stone
Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems
that political independence disappears without economic independence
that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.
Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: independence or death!
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
Independence of Judiciary means independence from Executive and Legislature, but not independence from accountability.
The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.
Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.
Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.
I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.
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