Ryan Eggold Quotes

I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.

I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren't even allowed to watch 'secular' television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.

Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch - old Westerns and stuff that wasn't vulgar or violent at all.

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions, so we didn't watch TV. And he didn't want any music playing that wasn't gospel or inspirational music. In fact, he didn't even like a lot of gospel because he thought it was too bluesy.

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

You had to wear a hat to go to church. We weren't allowed to straighten our hair. We couldn't wear jewellery, nail polish, open backed shoes, skirts above the knee... trousers were forbidden because male apparel on a female was not godly.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

I grew up in a very conservative home.

It has to be good to live in Singapore because otherwise, nobody will stand for it.

Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life.