D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Attempts to run the world generate resistance.

You can't shut me up with your cynicism. I warn you- you must realize in time that you are not a mighty despot before whom everyone trembles. I do not tremble before you, I will fight you if you force me to it.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.

We gradually become aware that we live in an environment where there is constant tension between authority and freedom.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.

The American revolution was a struggle for home rule but also for who should rule at home.

I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.

Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.