Dan Gable Quotes

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

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.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

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.

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

In being strict, you were able to control.

Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

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.

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!

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

If you try to smooth out society with a hot iron, you're liable to drive out all talent.

No act which is directed against the Inquisition can deserve the name of a rebellion.

In most of the countries where the people don’t like their government, we are now allowed to ask whether people like their government.

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

I've always had my wrist slapped for being myself.

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

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.