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Quotes About Rebellion

On les avait chassés ; ils étaient redevenus sauvages avec la pureté et la simplicité des bêtes.
~ Jean Giono
Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.
~ Jean Kilbourne
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
And, what is more, we know how an all-consuming passion for freedom in the world never fails to lead to conflicts and wars which are no less consuming.
~ Jean Paulhan
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. La lumière du jour, les ombres de la nuit, Tout retrace à mes yeux les charmes que j'évite. Tout vous livre à l'envi le rebelle Hippolyte.
~ Jean Racine
People called her wild, but she wasn't. Not really. She just didn't give a shit what they thought. Maybe that was what they found so unforgivable in the end.
~ Jean Reynolds Page
Abel," the chief shouted, "if you don't quit this letter writing, I'm going to have to take serious steps." "Off the end of the old dock, I hope," Grandpa replied as he slammed the door in the chief's face.
~ Jean Thesman
They were people—having fun.' 'They'd have had fun with us if they'd've caught us
~ Jean Ure
Blessed are those who break off from separateness theirs is wild heaven.
~ Jean Valentine
Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?" asked Patty wearily.
~ Jean Webster
How in the world," Georgie demanded, "do you ever make them let you do all these things? I stuck in three innocent little thumb-tacks to-day, and Peters descended upon me bristling with wrath, and said he'd report me if I didn't pull them out." "We never ask," explained Patty. "It's the only way.
~ Jean Webster
Souvenons-nous de ce temps, pas révolu, où toute explosion de violence était considérée comme une contre-violence, une réponse à la violence exercée plus ou moins ouvertement par l'État, par la société, les institutions, l'ordre établi. La folie des soeurs Papin, toute folie peut-être, serait-elle la forme extrême et désespérée de la révolte?
~ Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
our group was heading south, like a walking blasphemy.
~ Jean-Christophe Grangé
Artists are men who want to become inhuman.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
I am going to knock the slut out of you. And that should take some doing, you uppity English tramp!
~ Jeaniene Frost
He f**ks even better than he looks", I settled on saying. Several heads turned. I didn't care; I was pissed. And that beautiful face is going to be clamped between my legs as soon as we get home, don't you worry.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Surrealism is born of a consciousness of the derisory condition allotted to the individual and his thought, and a refusal to accommodate oneself to it.
~ JEAN-LOUIS BÉDOUIN
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Car celui qui saute dans le vide n'a plus de comptes à rendre à ceux qui le regardent.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Oh ! Franz, ce que tu peux être poule mouillée parfois ! Tu n'as donc pas envie de participer à ce grand bouleversement qui se prépare, de sortir de ta cage, de prendre ton envol ? Rappelle-toi que tu es le fils d'un Aigle ! Où sont tes ailes ? - Je ne suis pas le fils d'un Aigle, mais d'un vautour, qui pendant vingt ans s'est nourri de cadavres. Du moins c'est ainsi qu'on me le présente ici.
~ Jean-Marc Ligny
don't wanna, don't hafta, ain't gonna'.
~ Jeanne M. Dams
Aha!" I snapped my fingers, not realizing I had spoken aloud until I saw the glare on the face of the elderly passing clergyman. In his day—a very long time ago, that was—women did not go about getting sudden ideas in the Cathedral Close. It wasn't done. He sniffed and turned his back.
~ Jeanne M. Dams
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
~ Jean-Paul Marat