Varg Vikernes Quotes

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

I don't care about a social life.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

I don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing.

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.