“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.”
Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
Variant: I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.”
Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
“The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Source: As quoted in My Fellow Americans : The Most Important Speeches of America's Presidents (2003) by Michael Waldman, p. 137
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) American journalist
“Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention,” speech in Philadelphia, (Dec. 6 1833) http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abeswlgct.html
Rod Blagojevich (1956) Former Governor of Illinois
At a press conference, December 8, 2008, in Chicago, IL. CNN http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/illinois.governor/?iref=mpstoryview <br class="br">About wiretaps
“For them, having more is an inalienable right.”
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1, on the oppressors