Winnie Harlow Quotes

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

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

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.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

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.