So long as you’re still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.” It’s true that when you summon the

Author Neale Donald Walsch says, “So long as you’re still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

You’re owned by your ideas.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.

Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.