Douglas Booth Quotes

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

It was, 'If you don't do 'The Show Goes On,' your album's not coming out.' I had nothing to do with that record - nothing. I was literally told how I should rap on it. But I'm a bastard, 'cos I'll turn around and put it back in your face.

I've never really learned anything when I feel like it's being forced down my throat.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

To Arms! ... they [the French] would enslave the free-born mind, and compel us meanly to cringe to usurpation and arbitrary power.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.

If someone said you’re not allowed to wear red T-shirts, that’s all many people would ever think about and many people would want to wear them.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

Instead of contributing to the restoration of liberty they enlist of their own free will under the flag of the Spanish tyrants and most actively co-operate to our destruction

No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

The reign of terror is not a revolution: it is only a necessary instrument in a determined phase of the revolution.

The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long in college.

Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.

From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

You tell me what to do and I'll do the opposite.

When you realize that your freedom is being taken away from you, you're like, 'You know what, I'm not going to get good food in prison, so I'm going to order McDonald's, Wendy's, Chick-fil-A.' We're turning up and living our best life, and I did that.

Playing the piano was what I loved doing for myself, but as soon as it became a 'thing' that I was being pushed to pursue by my teachers, I rebelled.