Dave Barry Quotes

If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right.

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to.

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.

I've been used to being my own boss for a really long time, so I don't take to authority very well.

When you're 15 whatever your parents tell you you should do, you're not going to do it.

We were anything but 'America's sweethearts.' On the inside we were total sassy rebels.

When the rich kids got together, the most we ever did was cross against a red light.

What I was really into as a kid, anything that drove my mother crazy or made her nervous, and not much has changed.

I loved being a troublemaker. At Santa Monica High, I would smoke on campus, go barefoot, anything.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to wreck marriage, children and certainly one's health and sanity in pursuit of this.

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

I don't really think kids care much these days - they just tell you to f*** off.

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.