Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

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 believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes

I don't curtsy to Frank Sinatra and I'm not going to curtsy to a fucking king.

We have the power to turn against our creators.

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

Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.

Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in his own way. And in a way, it's sort of what I did when I was in the Army. I just oftentimes did what I wanted to do.

I don't take well to rules.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

We never want to toe the line.

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

A king of infinite space

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.