Ray Davies Quotes

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

The more pain you inflict on someone, the more they will tell you what they think you want to hear.

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ...

If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.

Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.

I have been very, very blessed with not having stage parents.

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

Seeking to ban things is as bossy as you can get.

Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.

It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion