Anthony de Mello Quotes

Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I don't want to follow the herd.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I just don't conform very well.

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

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

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

I don't care much about conforming.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.