Aleister Crowley Quotes

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

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

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

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

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

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

Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.

If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.

If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that's going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that.

I want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

I think, a lot of times, that's why groups break-up, because people lose their individuality.