Noncompliance Quotes

A custom / More honored in the breach than the observance.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

A community has not ceased to be essentially law-abiding merely because it refuses to practice literal obedience. There is such a thing as orderly disobedience to a statute, a disobedience which is open, frankly avowed, and in conformity with the general sense of what is reasonable

She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

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

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

I had always broken the rules.

If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

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

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.

We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.

I break rules all the time.

So, no more running. I aim to misbehave.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them.

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.