Masaba Gupta Quotes

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.

The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

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!

The free, self-determining, self-developing soul may not walk its own path, however innocently, but must fit into the scheme and pattern …

When the people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

L.A. is uninhibited: You're encouraged to express yourself, wear what you want, do what you want, and to speak from a very emotionally honest place. D.C. is different. In Washington, you have to be much more careful about what you say and do. Especially about what you wear!

It's kind of a Catch-22. The more successful you get, the less normal you get.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.

The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.