Pauline Hanson Quotes

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

A thinking man can never be a party man.

I am not a representative of anything. I have my opinions.

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.

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.'

My whole life is a contradiction on purpose - to make you think. I think people have forgetten how to have their own opinions. They're always waiting for someone to tell them what to do and what to wear - it's so boring.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

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

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.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

I have never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, philosophy, in politics, or in any thing else where I was capable of thinking for myself. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

I always spoke my mind. I didn't go with the flow.

The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.

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

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.