Rules: To be Broken or Not to be Broken

I've always found the saying, "Rules are meant to be broken," strangely interesting. In one way it's the truth, we make rules to prevent people from continuing a previous action but some won't listen. In another aspect rules are just boundaries created to give the powerful ones confidence. Almost as though they feel better about themselves after destroying yet another freedom we all once had. Lately I've been fascinated with human reactions to rules. Basically we listen and we follow, almost as though we were trained to do so. BUT, when certain people decide to go against the grain, what in their mindset allows them to warp this knowledge all humans are dealt? I see rules as straight lines; they have no depth and lack theory but the people that disobey their own nature, their lines becomes waves and curves. They become 3-d, they become vivid.