Kim Basinger Quotes

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

I will make them conform, or I will harry them out of the land.

… obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

Those who fear men like laws.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself

The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something - everyone can relate to that. I think Beetle represents that - the common man caught in that morass of rules and regulations. I don't even think of it as an army strip... it's a world anyone can understand.

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

Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

I used to have a private... life. Now I dont have that... I have no freedom. I miss my normal life terribly. Its a prison-like life I'm leading.

I hated every minute of my schooldays.

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.

Is all the world jails and churches?

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance between railway tracks, the meaning of success, the best way to love, the importance of rewards.