I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer!

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.

She was a surprise, and let’s face it, few people are.

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least...

I am not a number; I am a free man.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for...

How come when girls play with gender it’s a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it’s a sign of weakness?

The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subversive becomes just another pre-packaged lifestyle on special offer. So Cease to Resist. Relax and enjoy the PandaemonAeon. Believe everything...

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad.I turn my face towards it and I laugh.Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make...

fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I’ve encountered some unnecessary resistance that’s because most of the traffic...

Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is more closely linked...

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.

Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities...

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Giving style” to one’s character – a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan...

It’s in the morning, for most of us. It’s that time, those few seconds when we’re coming out of sleep but we’re not really awake yet. For those few seconds we’re something more primitive than...

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little...

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

I don’t belong to the masses, I’ve been against the masses all my life, and I’m not in favour of dogs.

Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kālāmas, do not be led by reports, or...

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

…there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in...

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn’t concerns anyone.