"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
― Margaret Thatcher
Topic(s):
Freedom
More From Margaret Thatcher
- "I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
- "I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."
- "A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."
More In Freedom
- "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."― John Stuart Mill
- "Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who ‘hate freedom’. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values."― Peter Singer
- "I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest."― Laura Riding