#Rebellion Quotes

“Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.”

“Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.”

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

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

“Let us kill all lawyers”

“Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.”

“Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?”

“The highest virtue is always against the law.”

“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.”

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

“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 poet is a good citizen turned inside out.”

“I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me”

“A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.”

“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.”

“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”

“WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.”

“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.”

“Injustice in the end produces independence.”

“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men”

“There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.”

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

“Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.”

“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.”

“I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.”

“Resist much, obey little.”

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

“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”

“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”

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

“I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.”

“Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!”

“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.”

“Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.”

“I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.”

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

“I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.”

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

“I slipped myself some pink Xannies/And danced around the house in all-over print panties.”

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

“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.”

“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.”

“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.”

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

“I like to skate on the other side of the ice.”

“I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.”

“The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.”

“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.”

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