Cameron Diaz Quotes

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

… not to destroy individualism but to protect it

People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right to self-determination, and wouldn't want anybody to stop them from becoming themselves. They just refuse to recognize the relationship between their lives and those of other women, or feel any solidarity there.

There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don't think they know. And I can't see any authority on the horizon that's got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.

No one tells me what to think. I think for me.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

You have the RIGHT to change your mind

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

We’re not so free that we don’t have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that’s what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.