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

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

Jobs give people a sense of independence, security and self-confidence.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

I think part of the way in which kids develop emotional and psychological resiliency is by having some independence.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

The Fed's independence is critical.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

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.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Independence is happiness.

A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

To actually be independent financially was a big luxury. Modelling gave me an independence, it gave me responsibility. I didn't have to work at McDonald's. I could save up and choose the training that I wanted to do.

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership - first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.

Solitude is independence.

I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.

Independence sounds good in theory, but in practice, it is mutually exclusive with accountability. The more independence you give a prosecutor, the less you make that prosecutor accountable to the public and regular checks and balances.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.