Quotes About Rebellion

I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.

The boys despised everything their elders valued. They scorned beauty and mocked goodness.

La lección, para unos muchachos como vosotros, es que puede haber más honor en la sumisión y en la obediencia que en una imprudente rebelión.

he had hated authoritarian religion

Prior Godwyn came in to see the patients. He refused to wear the face mask, saying it was women's nonsense. He made the same diagnosis as before, overheated blood, and prescribed bleeding and a diet of sour apples and ram's tripe.

S'infilò un vestito da tennis, lungo fino al ginocchio che si era cucita da sola accorciando l'orlo sfilacciato di un vecchio abito di sua madre. Non sarebbe andata a giocare a tennis, ma a ballare e il suo obiettivo era di sembrare americana. Si mise il rossetto e la cipria e si pettinò i capelli sciolti, sfidando la preferenza governativa per le trecce.

By Saturday evening Duke Henri was in a tantrum, possessed by the rage of a young man who finds that the world does not work in the way he confidently expected.

If earls' daughters were allowed to marry whom they please, we'd all be ruled by strolling minstrels and dark-eyed outlaws." "The

He who walks out of step hears another drum.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

To hell with that. A man goin' fishing with two whores from Portland don't have to take that crap.

You're just a young kid. What are you doin' here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin' chicks and bangin' beaver. What are ya doin' here, for Christ's sake? What's funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin' but complain about how you can't stand it in this place here and then you haven't got the guts just to walk out!

One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

But, gee, the other nurse says, what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...? You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.

They're out there. First line of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, Till death do them part.

I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack.

They're out there...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Mr. McMurphy... my friend... I'm not a chicken, I'm a rabbit. The doctor is a rabbit. Cheswick there is a rabbit. Billy Bibbit is a rabbit. All of us in here are rabbits of varying ages and degrees, hippity-hopping through our Walt Disney world. Oh, don't misunderstand me, we're not in here because we are rabbits?we'd be rabbits wherever we were?we're all in here because we can't adjust to our rabbithood. We need a good strong wolf like the nurse to teach us our place.

Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we'll face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines! Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her sword, blooie! Tranquilize all of us completely out of existence.

Tata zicea ca, daca nu iei seama, oamenii te silesc, intr-un fel sau altul, sa faci ce socotesc ei ca trebuie sa faci, ori sa te indaratnicesti ca un catar si sa faci toate pe dos, in ciuda lor.

one flew east, one flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest. —Children's folk rhyme

I still had my own notions. How McMurphy was a giant come out of the sky to save us from the combine that was networking the land with copper wire and crystal