Kenneth Grahame Quotes

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

The free, self-determining, self-developing soul may not walk its own path, however innocently, but must fit into the scheme and pattern …

If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of laying out his existence is the best.

The individual is greater than the state.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of my life.

To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And 'Drag Race' is about doing what you're told and having it evaluated. I hate being judged.

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.