Susan Powter Quotes

It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When you have a group, you have a leader who is going to put down the rest of the group.

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.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

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