Terry Pratchett Quotes

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

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

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

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!

… she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

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

The NWO, yeah, we're a bunch of outlaws, thugs, whatever you want to call us, but... we do what we want, when we want. And we're having fun doing it.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

The key of joy is disobedience.

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

I believe rules are meant to be broken.

The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.