Henry Ford Quotes

I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

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

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

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.

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

I'm not anybody's puppet.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

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

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

I like to play by my own rules.

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

Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.