Rebellion Quotes

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.

Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

It's a real smug self-righteous punk kid saying nobody has the right to tell him what to do and how dare you put a sign up saying that I can't go on your property?

Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!

I rented a car. I didn't really need one, I just wanted to make one less available. I wanted one businessman on the bus with no car.

I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.

Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend

I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. "You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits." And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity.

I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Follow me and do exactly what the song saysSmoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill peopleAnd drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal.

That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

All women are rebels.

I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.

The months before my son was born,I used to yell from night to morn,'Whatever it is, I'm against it!No matter what it is or who commenced it,I'm against it!'

My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.