Adolf Eichmann Quotes

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

One of the guiding beliefs of our consuming age is that we are all free and independent individuals. That we can choose to do pretty much what we want, and if we can't, then it's bad. But at the same time, co-existing alongside this, there is a completely different, parallel universe where we all seem meekly to do what those in power tell us to do.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel you think best.

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

I'm done with rules that are there just to be rules.

I don't like people telling me what to do.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

I don't particularly like being told what to do.

I'm a businessman, a company man, but I'm no 'yes' man.

I don't take well to rules.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.

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 will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.