Joseph Heller Quotes

No one can stop me.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Nature doesn't care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it any way she wants.

I have no power, no independence.

I would rather be a free man than be President and a slave.

There is no fettering of authority.

I'm the Rated-R Superstar. I do what I want when I want.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all.

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.