C. Wright Mills Quotes

I don't want to change the world, I don't want the world to change me.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

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 don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.

There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.

I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

I belong wherever I want to be.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

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 have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.