Also: "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner"
Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner"
Appears in Stephen Mitchell's rendering into English http://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html#Kap09 of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell's which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat https://books.google.com/books?id=ziJQdUzCgTIC&pg=PT98&dq=Care+what+other+think+%22you+will+always+be%22+their+prisoner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIpsbNzO69yAIVCU2ICh0mXwIE#v=onepage&q=Care%20what%20other%20think%20%22you%20will%20always%20be%22%20their%20prisoner&f=false, a positive thinking book published in 2013.
Misattributed
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
“I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”
“I don’t care if she knew about this. She ought to be in prison for wearing a hijab.”
2013
“If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?”
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 383)
Adulthood Rites (1988)
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“If you care about what people think you'll never live.”
This quotation is commonly attributed to Carter, but actually appeared on social networking websites, with no clear author.
Misattributed
“The National Party does not care about people, it only cares about power.”
Rand Daily Mail, (2 February 1981)
Parliament (1974-1991)
Source: http://www.samedia.uovs.ac.za/cgi-bin/getpdf?id=2000874
