Quotes About Rebellion

How sick one gets of being 'good ' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.

Of course I'm not being objective it was my life As a matter of fact I feel positively defiant about

Chaotic to cast out kings

I don't want this poem to be beautiful. I do.

And if I am I must still bring down the pyramid, the paradigm, the leader's pearl throne.

I want to be lawless; I want to be alone.

Your definitions of living kill you into a frenetic boredom

Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

Se quitó el 'de' de su apellido de casada y lo tiró por encima del hombro. Al caer, el 'de' produjo un estallido de cacerolas de aluminio rodando por las escaleras de la casa: pram pata pram porque la mujer no es propiedad de nadie, ni siquiera del marido pram pram.

It is dangerous to be right on matters in which the established authorities are wrong.

Als een jongen ooit een "luie, spottende wenkbrauw" naar me optrekt, breek ik zijn neus. - Claire

Trotseer ze, Bloem-Alice-Claire. Bied weerstand aan hun overheersing. Daar ben je sterk genoeg voor. Je bent altijd een rebel geweest, altijd op zoek naar verklaringen waar anderen de dingen klakkeloos accepteerden... Je hebt nooit toegegeven, liefje, je bent nooit met de kudde meegehobbeld. - Al

At least I won't die a slave," Maerad answered. Proud words, she thought, but she meant them.

Virginia and Vanessa were often thought scruffy. Vanessa rapidly decided that untidiness and dirt were infinitely preferable to being 'a Town Lady'; the writer Rebecca West thought Virginia always looked as if she had been pulled through a hedge backwards.

She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.

Darkness is a result of disinterest in God, rebellion against Him, and unwillingness to do what He says. There is but one message that shines light into such darkness, refreshing hearts and minds: "Behold your God!

Don't think about jumping, Iggy. We're going about seventy, and despite my orders, we're on our way to Puebla. So keep your ass glued in the goddamn seat.

There is a quest, but ever more hopeless, for arrangements and ways of putting the broken pieces back together. The task is equivalent to squaring the circle, because everyone loves himself most but wants others to love him more than they love themselves. Such is particularly the demand of children, against which parents are now rebelling.

Mick Jagger played the role in their [students] lives that Napoleon played in the lives of ordinary young Frenchmen throughout the nineteenth century. Everyone else was so boring and unable to charm youthful passions.

refusal to abide by the rules of democracy

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

A man in chains need not be a slave. If he has pride and self-respect he is a free man though a prisoner, and a constant danger to his jailers. Conversely, a slave who escapes is not a free man, but a runaway slave who may be caught and returned to servitude. A slave is one who accepts the identity ascribed to him by a master: "You are an inferior and unworthy person and so will remain, and therefore must serve me with obedience and humility.