{"quotes":[{"text":"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["beliefs","brainwashed","brainwashing","compatibility","conclusions","conform","conformist","conformity","critical-thinking","herd-mentality","independent-thinking","independent-thought","indoctrination","nonconformity","puppet","sheep","sheep-mentality"],"id":20066,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's white radical allies. They understood it instinctively, and revolutionary theory had little to do with it. What Wright could not see was that what the Negro's allies feared most of all was that this sleeping, dream-walking black giant might wake up and direct the revolution all by himself, relegating his white allies to a humiliating second-class status. The negro's allies were not about to tell the Negro anything that might place him on the path to greater power and independence in the revolutionary movement than they themselves had. The rules of the power game meant that unless the American Negro taught himself the profound implications of his own revolutionary significance in America, it would never be taught to him by anybody else. Unless the Negro intellectuals understood that in pursuit of this self-understanding, they would have to make their own rules, by and for themselves, nationalism would forever remain--as it was for Wright-- 'a bewildering and vexing question.","author":"Harold Cruse","tags":["black-americans","black-intellectuals","class","culture","culture-and-imperialism","independence","independent-thought","intellectuals","marxism","nationalism","race","race-in-america","self-awareness","self-understanding"],"id":20849,"author_id":"Harold+Cruse"},{"text":"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["brainwashing","critical-thinking","humor","independent-thought","truth","wisdom"],"id":41998,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Rich or poor it’s nice to have money.","author":"Alan Sheinwald","tags":["accomplishment","alan-sheinwald","attributed","carpe-diem","change","different","economics","equality","eternity","fate","goals","good","happiness","hypocrisy","importance","independent-thought","integrity","knowledge","life","obvious","perception","philosophy","plans","progress","reason","strategy","truth","wealth"],"id":42746,"author_id":"Alan+Sheinwald"},{"text":"It is impossible to understand how millions and millions of people all obey a sickly collection of gentlemen that call themselves 'Government!' The word, I expect, frightens people. It is a form of planetary hypnosis, and very unhealthy.'It has been going on for years,' I said. 'And it only occurred to relatively few to disobey and make what they call revolutions. If they won their revolutions, which they occasionally did, they made more governments, sometimes more cruel and stupid than the last.'Men are very difficult to understand,' said Carmella. 'Let's hope they all freeze to death. I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for themselves, instead of always being told what to do and think by advertisements, cinemas, policemen, and parliaments.","author":"Leonora Carrington","tags":["anarchy","free-thinkers","independent-thought","politics","revolution"],"id":76573,"author_id":"Leonora+Carrington"},{"text":"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.","author":"Albert Einstein","tags":["dissent","independent-thought","science"],"id":78234,"author_id":"Albert+Einstein"},{"text":"Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring3. Do the right thing4. Be honest and straight forward5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow6. Work hard and be yourself7. Lead by example.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["attitude","be-daring","be-honest","be-straight-forward","be-willing-to-change","be-you","be-yourself","be-yourself-inspirational","be-yourself-original","be-yourself","be-yourself","business","business-advice","business-culture","business-leaders","business-minded","business-minded-people","business","business-success","change","daring","do-the-right-thing","do-whats-right","don-t-cheat","forward-direction","forward-momentum","forward-movement","forward","forward-thinkers","forward-thinking","germany-kent","germany-kent","germany-kent","get-ahead-in-business","grow","growth","growth-life","growth-process","growth","honest-with-yourself","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty","hope-guru","independent","independent-thinking","independent-thought","independent-women","inspirational-speaker","inventive","inventiveness","lead","lead-by-example","lead-from-within","leaders","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-development","leadership","leadership-styles","leadership-traits","learn","learning-by-doing","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-others","learning-lessons","learning-process","learning","learning-the-truth","life-lessons-life","life-lessons-life-reason","life-lessons","life-lessons-value-of-life-truth","life-lessons-wisdom","make-changes","mindset","motivate","motivational","motivational-enlightenment","motivational-speaker","motivational-speaker","personal-development","personal-development-goals","personal-development-insights","personal-development","personal-development-today","personal-growth","personal-growth-personal","personal-growth","personal-growth","powerful-people","powerful-women","risk-taker","seven-tips","seven-ways","stay-the-course","straight-forward","strategies","succeed","success","success-in-business","success-in-life","success","success-self-improvement","success-strategies","successful-living","successful-people","tactics","take-a-stand","take-a-step","take-action","take-actions","take-actions-on-your-dreams","take-chances","take-risks","take-the-lead","the-hope-guru","tips-and-tricks","today","today-is-a-great-new-beginning","today-tomorrow","top-seven","transformational-speaker","work-hard","work-hard-and-smart","work-hard-for-your-dreams","work-hard","work-hard","work-harder","work-harder-for-your-dreams"],"id":100673,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"},{"text":"Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.","author":"Iain Pears","tags":["argument","blind-faith","disagreement","discussion","doctrine","faith","freedom-of-thought","independent-thought","jews","judaism","religion","shouting"],"id":102961,"author_id":"Iain+Pears"},{"text":"At the end of the day,” he continued, “although many believe in fate, it’s those who go through life with independent thought alone who are the strongest.","author":"Adele Rose","tags":["fate","independent-thought","vladimir"],"id":120176,"author_id":"Adele+Rose"},{"text":"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.","author":"Anaïs Nin","tags":["critical-thinking","dogma","freedom-of-thought","independent-thought","inspirational","politics","religion"],"id":122828,"author_id":"Ana%C3%AFs+Nin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}