Karen Horney Quotes

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

I was anti-conformist.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

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

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

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

I don't care much about conforming.

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.

I like being unconventional.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

I just live my own life, and I don't read any of the magazines.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

To be honest, I think affiliation is anathema - if you're a rock 'n' roller, you're a lone wolf.