Mo Yan Quotes

I can have someone tell me to do stuff all the time every day, and if I don't want to do it, I ain't gonna do it.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel you think best.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

I don't particularly like being told what to do.

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

I just don't like being told what to do.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

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

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.