Fran Drescher Quotes

Only the educated are free.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

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

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Liberty, as a counterweight to servile docility which receives everything without scrutiny ... will without question be the theme of this university.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

When you've got education, you've got knowledge and power and confidence to go out in the world.