Anti-Authority Quotes

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that's what it takes - and then you can write villainous characters.

There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.

I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

If your mother doesn't remove the Marlboro from her lips before telling the State Trooper to kiss her ass, you might be a redneck.

Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.

There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

Americans are defiant people; the don’t like authority. That was the revolutionary spirit.

I think that's really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates and rock 'n' roll go hand in hand. There is a 'question authority,' 'don't be afraid to break the rules' quality that whether you're a 4-year-old bouncing on your bed as your parents are trying to stop it or an adult longing for that feeling, there's something inside all of us that piracy speaks to. I'm going to do what I want to do and I don't care what you think.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.