Quotes About Rebellion

Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren't mine, are at least different from the norm.

They don't want to be grown-ups. They're so rich they don't think they have to get old. They lived down here when they were twenty-three and they want to relive their bohemian days, except not crammed into a tiny apartment with roommates who never flush the toilet. I didn't have bohemian days. I worked.

Jesus had upset the temporal authorities, and political consequences would surely follow.

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If you think I'm dressing up as your ecclesiastical secretary like the last time, it's a no go. I'm not wearing a cassock in this heat.

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Vomiting isn't bad either, take note. It is, in certain more obvious respects, a show of force. I have always liked this story 'A man holding with one hand to a one-way sign is vomiting into the gutter, another man goes past near him and tells him: "If you only knew how much I agree with you.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

Faggots are the great immoralists.

Nasze ?ycie rodzinne,prawo naszych domów,nie przypomina ani trochÄ™ waszych domów.Kochamy siÄ™,ale jest to miÅ'o?? bez miÅ'oÅ›ci

The highest moment of freedom was attained. To fire on God, to wound him and make him a deadly enemy. I fired. I fired three shots.

Dès qu'on entre en lutte contre la guerre, on entre en lutte contre le gouvernement.

He called his horse Bicou, he called the child Bicou, and to hell with it.