Quotes About Rebellion

Fools "Sell Out" Where Angels Fear to Tread

Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends

Don't Go With The Flow. The Powers That Be Turn The Taps

Originally, I had planned to study tourism and revolution, which seemed to me to name the two poles of modern consciousness--a willingness to accept, even venerate, things as they are on the one hand, a desire to transform things on the other.

Because if we're on the road to hell, we're going to dance the whole damn way and give them something to talk about when we're gone.

As a scientist I rebelled against the disorder, and I had long since discovered that nothing thwarted the mental processes like clutter.

Have I shocked you? Remember I was born in a different time, Miss Speedwell. Virginity is Queen Victoria's legacy. The rest of us are not quite so blinkered," she told me. "Take my advice and get rid of yours as fast as you can.

English and Americans joining together in a spirit of 'screw you' to their respective governments," she says with a grin.

I'll eat rabbit pellets before you get me into something pink with ruffles.

I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.

We had a humiliating and lengthy wait at a DONT WALK sign with not a car in sight for miles. Dad was a press about jaywalking. Or maybe he just like to stare down what he'd testily called the "grammatical error sanctioned by the state." There is, of course, no apostrophe in the DONT WALK sign.

She wants to propel herself into the dark and terrifying universe. Being that unanchored and that much in peril seems preferable to being here, grounded on the earth that wrecked her.

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?

Question authority... Then ignore it!

Who needs toothpaste when you have cigarettes?

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it's the chaos which helps us find where we belong.

Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.

Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.