The 60 best phrases of independence

Independence is an ethical value that has been very much in vogue in recent years.. Associated with the notion of freedom, justice and self-determination, many countries in recent centuries have shed their colonial ties to become states with rights and legislation own.

Although it is a term widely used in politics, independence must also be a value on which to base the action and thought of every human being. Assuming that one can act regardless of certain conditions can take us to higher levels of self-awareness.

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The best phrases and famous quotes about independence

In this article We are going to compile the best independence phrases pronounced by great thinkers, politicians and philosophers of history.

1. The best teamwork comes from people working independently toward a common goal (James Cash Penney)

A way of giving a specific weight to the collaboration.

2. Nothing is more valuable than independence and freedom (Ho Chi Minh)

Perhaps, the fundamental value of prosperous societies.

3. Independence does not mean that you decide the way you want. (Stephen Breyer)

One of those phrases of independence that invite us to reflect.

4. Independence is acting with conscience but with faith. (Juan Armando Corbin)

The Argentine psychologist thus spoke about the possibility of acting freely and autonomously.

5. True freedom and independence can only exist in doing the right thing (Brigham Young)

An ethical maxim to apply to any political or social action.

6. Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. (David Ben Gurion)

It is not a question of identity, but of shared ethics.

7. Independence is a very subjective assessment (P. chidambaram)

Relativizing this moral value, which depends on a general feeling of the population.

8. Independence, like honor, is a rocky island without beaches (Napoleon Bonaparte)

The French conqueror drew this metaphor about independence.

9. The Independence Day of many states has its reason for being in the calamities suffered during centuries of subalternity. (Benjamin Franklin)

The colonies were historically subjected to the yoke of the metropolises.

10. The beauty of independence, leaving, actions that support themselves. (walt whitman)

Great phrase from the American poet.

11. Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. (George Henry Lewes)

Properly understood, independence must be a creative and honest outburst.

12. Independence does not mean chauvinism or rigid nationalism. (Said Muse)

A way of understanding the independence movement that clashes with other forms of identitary patriotism.

13. Impatience is the mark of independence, not slavery. (Marianne Moore)

Brief reflection of the American poet.

14. The independent character arises from being able to be self-sufficient. (Francis Grandmontagne)

Being autonomous means being free.

15. Let it not be someone else's who can own himself. (Paracelsus)

Governing oneself is a necessary condition to be able to govern others rigorously and effectively.

16. Loneliness is independence. (Herman Hesse)

Lonely people tend to have their own vision of the things that happen around them.

17. It is better to be wrong following your own path than to be right following someone else's path. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

The Russian author, about independence of thought.

18. The most unforgivable sin in society is independence of thought. (Emma Goldmann)

The feminist author thus defined the risk of having a free and autonomous thought.

19. Always independent, never isolated. (Emilio Visconti Ventosa)

Independent thinking is not achieved by isolating yourself from reality, but by clinging to it day after day.

20. If we want Central America, our worthy Homeland, to be an independent, free and happy nation, it is necessary that we make all the sacrifices that independence demands. (Jose Cecilio del Valle)

A political thought about the courage necessary for a people to be governed from within.

21. Make the children look for what they are able to find by their own strength. (Johann Heinrich Pestazzolli)

A way of educating children to be proactive and self-effective.

22. True independence lies in the following three words: live with little. (William Cobbett)

Austerity is a symbol of intellectual, material and moral freedom.

23. Be your own palace or the world will be your prison. (John Donne)

If you are not satisfied with the case you have been given, the world is probably a hateful place for you.

24. Independence means that you decide based on the law and the facts. (Stephen Breyer)

On legality and its influence on the notion of independence.

25. Educating a child is teaching him to do without us. (Ernest Legouve)

A great phrase of freedom and independence.

26. Independence was always my desire; dependency was always my destiny. (Paul Verlaine)

Even if we don't want to, we are subject to many influences that anchor us to certain cognitive biases.

27. He passed a minister of the emperor and said to Diogenes: Oh, Diogenes! If you learned to be more submissive and flatter the emperor more, you wouldn't have to eat so many lentils. Diogenes replied: If you learned to eat lentils you would not have to be submissive and flatter the emperor so much. (Diogenes the Cynic)

A great answer that shows us the irreducible character of this Greek thinker.

28. The greatest thing in the world is knowing how to be self-sufficient. (Michel de Montaigne)

There is nothing more important or with more advantages on many levels.

29. The powerful man in power succumbs; the money man, in the money; the servile and humble, in service; the one who seeks pleasure, in pleasures. And so the Steppenwolf succumbed to his independence. (Herman Hesse)

The German philosopher thus spoke about the dangers that lead us to dependency.

30. It's hard to make a man understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair)

On intellectual ethics in a context where the worker has little choice if he wants to survive.

31. The general happiness of a town rests on the individual independence of its inhabitants. (Josep Pla)

The Catalan author thus spoke about the happiness of an entire community.

32. Think badly, but in all cases, think for yourself. (Doris Lessing)

At the very least, don't get carried away by the herd-thinking of the masses.

33. Part of your inheritance in this society is the opportunity to achieve financial independence. (Jim Rohn)

An idea that can make you improve in your financial affairs.

34. You should seek to be autonomous in what is important and dependent in what is trivial. (Jorge González Moore)

A great reflection to apply to our day to day.

35. We think we can do without others, we are flattered to feel independent. (Fernando Savater)

The Spanish philosopher knows the limits of personal autonomy.

36. The eyes of others are our prisons, their thoughts our cages. (Virginia Woolf)

A great metaphor that illustrates the benefits of the difference between subjects.

37. Diversity: the art of thinking independently, all together. (Malcolm Forbes)

A paradox that explains the power of cooperation between different but valuable people.

38. Being independent belongs to a small minority, it is the privilege of the strong. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

The German philosopher spoke like this about people who manage to think for themselves.

39. The best gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. (Denis Waitley)

A form of education based on two fundamental pillars.

40. Independence of thought is the noblest aristocracy. (Rene de Chateaubriand)

A reflection on independence in thinking and acting.

41. The world is independent of my will. (ludwig wittgenstein)

Although we are thinking beings, reality is stubborn and cannot be easily modulated.

42. The worst thing is to fail with other people's ideas. (Helenio Herrera)

If you're going to be wrong, at least it's following your own instinct.

43. I am an independentist, but not a nationalist. (Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira)

The pro-independence leader of ERC, a Catalan political formation, explaining that independence has pragmatic, not identity-based foundations.

44. It is better to be wrong following your own path than to be right following someone else's path. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

A phrase of independence very similar to the one pronounced by the soccer coach Helenio Herrera.

45. We will do it again. (Jordi Cuixart)

In his eagerness to achieve the independence of Catalonia, this activist spoke these words after being convicted of rebellion.

46. Injustice, in the end, generates independence. (Voltaire)

The reiteration of situations of manifest injustice end up leading to unilateral rupture.

47. Independence is happiness. (Susan B. Anthony)

Both the national and personal independence of a human being is one of his greatest sources of happiness.

48. Freedom is the only objective worthy of the sacrifice of the lives of men. (Simon Bolivar)

The fathers of the Latin American homeland appealed to freedom to achieve independence and vice versa.

49. All day there is no time for memos now. Advance! Freedom and independence forever (Davy Crockett)

Almost all the national heroes of the different countries appeal to the independence and freedom of their peoples.

50. My mother told me that she was a lady. And to her, that meant being your own person, being independent. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

One of the popular conceptions of how a lady should be at the beginning of the 20th century.

51. The man who is aware of himself is henceforth independent; and she is never bored, and life is too short, and he is suffused with a deep but temperate happiness. (Virginia Woolf)

One of the keys to independence and happiness is to be aware that we are free and independent.

52. Unlike a drop of water that loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. The life of man is independent. He is not born only for the development of society, but for the development of himself. (B. R. Ambedkar)

There is no human being equal to another and it is our individuality that identifies us forever.

53. Independence of thought is the proudest aristocracy. (Anatole France)

It is a pride to think for oneself.

54. A tragic irony of life is that so often we achieve success or financial independence after the main reason we sought it has disappeared. (Ellen Glasweg)

Dreams and aspirations end up disappearing when we reach a certain age.

55. There is no such thing as an independent person. (Peter Jennings)

As social beings, people need to live in society with their peers.

56. I am not a bird; and there is no net that catches me; I am a free human being with an independent will. (Charlotte Bronte)

A historical allegation in favor of freedom and independence.

57. Communication is a continuous balancing act, juggling conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than just cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. (Deborah Tannen)

The dialectical nature of the human being is a continuous balance between individual and society.

58. In the city of Quito, the day after independence, an anonymous hand wrote on a wall. And first of the same. (Eduardo Galeano)

Some independences failed to bring freedom to their peoples.

59. Women today are dealing with both their independence and the fact that their lives are based on finding and satisfying the romantic role models we grew up with. (Jane Campion)

The classic balance that many women had to do a few centuries ago.

60. Who won our independence... they valued freedom as an end and as a means. They believed that freedom was the secret to happiness and that courage was the secret to freedom. (Louis D. brandeis)

The stories of independence of many countries are based on epic stories, sacrifice and bravery.