Thomas Jane Quotes

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

The free, self-determining, self-developing soul may not walk its own path, however innocently, but must fit into the scheme and pattern …

In an over-organized society, the individual is altogether crushed out of existence. He gains the whole wealth of social thought around him and loses his own soul.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

I don't like rules.

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I just don't conform very well.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.