Harlan Ellison Quotes

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

Those who taught you were wrong. I have never set down a "right" or "wrong," a "do" or a "don't." To do so would be to strip you completely of your greatest gift - the opportunity to do as you please.

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

I don't run behind authority.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

I'm that weird guy; I hate being told what to do.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

I am very into making up my own rules.