Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I think one thing my mother always instilled in me was a sense of individuality. Being an only child, I never thought I had to rely on anyone. I was never afraid to be alone and I was never afraid to be my own person. So when all my friends were like, "Let's smoke weed," I was like, "I'm not doing it." It wasn't because I was trying to be a rebel or because I didn't like it or I was anti-drugs. I just didn't do it because I didn't want to do it, and if I didn't want to do it, I wasn't doing it. That was it.

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

I wear what I want to wear and I do what I want to do and I think everyone should do that.

Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel.

I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.

My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

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

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.

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.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

A strong spirit transcends rules.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.