Rebellion Quotes

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

If is a custom,More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.

Well behaved women do not make history.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

Let us kill all lawyers

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

Man said, "I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings!

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me

I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

God sent me to piss the world off!

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"