Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

I am a rank individualist.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I don't live on other people's terms.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

I appreciate individualism.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone.

“I would rather err with the majority than in my own way.” So thought Saint Augustine. I am of the reverse opinion.

… the true individualist must regard power over others as preeminently something to be loathed and shunned.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.