William Powell Quotes

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

This is no place for a girl on fire.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

Don't let the government win.

Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me.

We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce.

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

Real spirituality is going through fire. Real spirituality is rebellion against all that is rotten, against all that is past, against all that is being forced on you by others, against all conditionings. Real spirituality is the greatest rebellion there is. It is risky, it is adventurous, it is dangerous. So beware of pseudo spirituality which is always there, available, easily available at the door.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

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.

I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

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