Famous quotes containing the words independent, speech and/or recognition:
“Id like to come back as an independent woman who has more ambition than I have.”
—Jenny Bird (b. c. 1937)
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poets bombast!”
—Jean De La Bruyère (16451696)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
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