Quotes About Rebellion

A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.

I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn.

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

Veronica eased the car forward, narrowly missing two girls who stopped in the middle of the street to light each other's cigarettes. They both held up their middle fingers in perfect unison. Veronica cheerfully flipped them off in return, then took a right toward Neptune's Warehouse District.

During a long heart-to-heart talk, as they ramble through the country lanes near Bredon Hill, his father muses upon the old meaning of 'pagan' – 'belonging to the village'. 'The village is sneered at as something petty. Petty it can be. Yet it works – the scale is human. People can relate there. Man may yet, in the nick of time, revolt, and save himself. Revolt from the monolith; come back to the village.' He

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

God forbid that I should ever be a good influence on anybody.

Drop dead-but first get permit

I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)

That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.

Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.

Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes - make him feel shame if he doesn't have it.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

An apostate scientist, a kidnapped scientist, a dull peasant, a two-headed monster, an apple-brained moron -- five knives, counting Joe-Jim as one; five brains, counting Joe-Jim as two and Bobo as none -- five brains and five knives to overthrow an entire culture.

Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.

He had more than his share of that streak of anarchy which was the birthright of every American;

That we were slaves I had known all my life—and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold—but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow.

So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.

Democrats were being rounded up, sentenced by drumhead courts-martial (provost's tribunals, they were called) and executed on the spot—laser, gunfire, some hangings.

nos morituri vos spernimus (we who are about to die, scorn you)

before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.