Christopher Parker Quotes

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

I just live my own life, and I don't read any of the magazines.

A thinking man can never be a party man.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

My message to women is it's okay not to toe the party line on every issue. You don't have to be a puppet or a mouthpiece for your party on every issue. You can be an independent thinker; you can take it issue by issue, and that's okay. You shouldn't be told, 'You can't sit with us.'

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

Listen to everyone, follow no one.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Think for yourself and question authority.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.