Daniel Hannan Quotes

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

I don't like overt traditionalism.

Think for yourself and question authority.

A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

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

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.

If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.

Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon. I'm a follower of no one.

I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.