Jon Johansen Quotes

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.

If you want people to be let loose, you can't over-control them.

Peace is restrained; this is free.

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it's good to live a little!

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

I can't be left unsupervised.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

I'm done with rules that are there just to be rules.

Nothing should be banned. I think it is just not good.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

I never want to get stuck in the box.