George Carlin Quotes

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.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.

But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.

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

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.