Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

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

I don't run behind authority.

I really rebel against authority.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

I'm always rebelling. I don't think I'll ever stop.

I think it's important to rebel a little bit.

I don't take well to rules.

I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

We never want to toe the line.

Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

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

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

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

I've always been in a rebel.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.