Marcus Aurelius Quotes

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

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

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!

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

To despise legitimate authority, no matter in whom it is invested, is unlawful; it is rebellion against God's will.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

I'm definitely not a rebel.

I don't take well to rules.

Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

You obey Wade Barrett's orders and you disrespect every person who has ever been champion. Including yourself.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.