Friday, 1 February 2013

Independent - Quotes

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. - Calvin Coolidge

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; someone strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. - Winston Churchill

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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