Bernard Beckett Quotes

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

The free, self-determining, self-developing soul may not walk its own path, however innocently, but must fit into the scheme and pattern …

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

Children have their own mind.

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

No one can ban me or stop me from acting.

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

Liberty is the great developer.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.