Independence Quotes

Charles Reich

The search for consciousness begins with an effort to shake off the false consciousness imposed by society… One devise is particularly important; an individual cannot hope to achieve an independent consciousness unless he cultivates, by whatever means are available including clothes, speech, mannerisms, illegal activities and so forth, the feeling of being an outsider. Only the person who feels himself to be an outsider is genuinely free of the lures and temptations of the Corporate State.

E.F. Schumacher

Without self-awareness man acts, speaks studies, reacts, mechanically, like a machine: on the basis of “programs” acquired accidentally, unintentionally, mechanically. He is not aware that he is acting in accordance with programs… when he is awake, no one can program him: he programs himself.