John Waters Quotes

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.

Fools follow rules when the set commands ya...

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

I simply refuse to play by the rules.

Gotta know the rules to break the rules.

I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You didn't share their values. No one did in my circle. It was OK to rebel.

I don't take well to rules.

I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.

I don't follow the rules!

We never want to toe the line.

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.

Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!"

And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.