Friedrich Schiller Quotes

No one man can give up the rebellion for any other man.

Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

You can't let nobody run your train.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.

I train myself. I don't have trainers who want hundreds of thousands of dollars to train me. I hire who I want to put the grease on my face, to rub my neck and rub my back, to take my mouthpiece out and rinse it off and put the mouthpiece back in. And then I go about my business. And if they want to say something, they can give me little reminders. All you need are reminders. You don't need 'big-time' trainers.

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence...

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

My ultimate goal and our ultimate goal is to be individuals, to sustain what we been able to sustain.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.