Caroline Lucas Quotes

I love challenging the status quo.

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

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

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those in authority; questioning and challenging those in authority." Which was not really the way I saw it. I felt there were questions that had to be answered, and things that weren't quite right.

The unexamined leader is not worth following.

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.