Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

I've always had a problem with doing what I'm told.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

I've always been a tilter of lances against authority.

I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.

Do what I will never do.

I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.