Henry Rollins Quotes

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

You can't be a free spirit in a place that feels like it was built on lockdown.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.