Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

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

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.

I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?

You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

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.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

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.'

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

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

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.