William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Why can't you and I let the world run itself its own way?

I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

Who people like is their own business. It don't concern me. I know what I do - and I'm having a lot of fun with the women that I'm with.

Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

I feel like I should be able to be 18 and have the friends that I choose and to have fun and live my life.

I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!

I said what I felt, and people try to control people. But you can never control me. I'm a 31-year-old juvenile delinquent. Nobody can control me.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

I don't give a damn what people think.

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.

We have sex education - I'm for it, I'm not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it's young people's job to invent it themselves. You're not going to teach them; they're going to reinvent it.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

Everything I have is a private company. And even though a public company's a great thing, it's great for financing and all of the stuff you need to do. I'm not answering to anybody but my wife and my children and the people who work for me, and my partners.

I think it's a scary thing for a lot of people to think of the government not being involved in their lives, particularly single women.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.