Quotes About Rebellion

You damned moose.

you're not going to pull that hen house shit now, are you? --RP McMurphy

We are the culture. All those people that are doing those dumb TV things and promoting hate…that's the 'counter'culture.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say.

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal