Libba Bray Quotes

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!

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

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

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

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.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

I don't like rules.

Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser.