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Quotes About Rebellion

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run
~ Jeff Buckley
Friend, I love your rebellious heart.
~ Jeff Foster
Manson liked to brag that prison was his daddy and the street was his mother.
~ Jeff Guinn
in a city that had long ago waived most moral or legal limits for the famous, their philosophy was "We're us, there are no rules, we get to do this.
~ Jeff Guinn
Her son seemed to be belatedly rebelling against all his celebrated accomplishments- as well as the responsibilities inherent in them, the obligations to own his talents.In that rebellion, she saw a young man who was confused and upset that his life wasn't stacking up to be what he and everyone around him had always assumed it would.
~ Jeff Hobbs
men and women who'd constantly filed through our common room, wearing hoodies and piercings—uniform in their aversion to uniformity—
~ Jeff Hobbs
Half of what is labeled 'crime' is something else. You be your own judge. Your own boss. The world is broken and you won't fix it by obeying the broken rules.
~ Jeff Johnson
You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean
~ Jeff Mariotte
Another story tells of Grogan, passing through New York, performed a public burning of dollar bills, and the dollar dropped six points on Wall Street.
~ Jeff Nuttall
Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies — what we'll call "geeks" for the rest of the book (deal with it) — we're a creative lot who don't like to be told what to do.
~ Jeff Potter
I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.
~ Jeff Ross
Mrs. Cooke reached into his jacket pocket, pulled out his phone, and threw it with all her force onto the asphalt.
~ Jeff Sampson
My God, John. The king has begun to shoot his subjects.
~ Jeff Shaara
He had carved his face and filled the grooves with green pigment. He had forked his tongue and ground his teeth and nails into sharp points. Ying now looked like a dragon. A crazy, vengeful sixteen-year-old dragon. Malao
~ Jeff Stone
Grounding you obviously don't work. Neither does taking away your allowance. I guess the only punishment that'll teach you a good enough lesson is if you sleep with Gramma's corpse tonight.
~ Jeff Strand
Giving your mother a good night kiss is totally punk rock, and don't you forget it!)
~ Jeff Strand
Im riding a troll! i was born to do this,and steal stuff, and EAT LOADS!
~ Eion Colfer
Los hombres no lloran, le repetía su padre. ¿Y por qué los hombres no podían llorar? Alguna vez debía romper las reglas impuestas y con decisión se lanzó sobre su cama y sollozó sobre su almohada de borra.
~ Elena Garro
Where is God to be found? In suffering or in rebellion? When is a man most truly a man? When he submits or when he refuses? Where does suffering lead him? To purification or to bestiality?
~ Elie Wiesel
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross. There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, God has no right to do this to five men unless...
~ Elisabeth Elliot
All creatures, with two exceptions that we know of, have willingly taken the places appointed to them. The Bible speaks of angels who rebelled and therefore were cast down out of heaven, and of the fall of man.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, Do you also want to leave me? If we answer as PEter did, Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life, our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.
~ Elisabeth Elliot