Quotes About Rebellion

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.

In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?

A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.

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The rebels issued coins showing the Italian Bull goring the Roman Wolf. Archaeologists have also discovered gold Italian coins similar to Mithradates' Pontic coins, showing Dionysus, an allusion to Mithradates' nickname and a symbol of rebellion against Rome.17

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for...many facets of our own oppression.

We cut the wires, find ourselves in free-fall, as if our true home were the undimensional solitudes, the rift in the Great Nebula.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

I had a grandmother who was really strong, who doted on me, who wanted to make sure that I didn't go off the beaten path, although I did.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

In life, sometimes it pays off when you really don't give a damn.

There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions for it all around the country, but it comes down to the same thing: this inherent mistrust of authority, and trying to topple people off a pedestal.

I go to a lot of metal shows when we're home. I don't know why, but it takes me back to when I was 17 and going to the local metal shows in Pennsylvania. I go right back to that mentality.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.