Quotes About Rebellion

Control puberty? snorted the bodyguard.If you manage that, you'll be the first.

I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction.

The cow spat. "What are you going to do? Not eat me?" "That's right. I won't eat you and I won't eat your entire family. Wherever they hide, I'll find them and not eat a single bite.

Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?

Illegal, yes, but almost everything I do is illegal, so why start worrying now?

Root was blij dat hij iemand had tegen wie hij kon schreeuwen. 'Bek houden, veroordeelde!

Juliet klapte in haar handen. 'Heb jij eigenlijk ooit wel eens een bevel opgevolgd?' 'Het was een soort non-bevel en ik volg trouwens alleen bevelen op als ze redelijk zijn.' - Holly

Holly kicked up her legs behind her, dropping into a steep dive. Diving was against Recon regulations. All approaches were supposed to be controlled and gradual, but what was the point of flying if you couldn't feel the slipstream tugging at your toes?

One, don't call me Julius. Two, do what I say, horsey boy, or I'll have your budget slashed. And three, what in Frond's name is the cancan?

Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual." Tending

Tim: I shot my TV.

The Emancipation Proclamation is perhaps the most misunderstood of the documents that have shaped American history. Contrary to legend, Lincoln did not free the nearly four million slaves with a stroke of his pen. It had no bearing on slaves in the four border states, since they were not in rebellion. The Proclamation also exempted certain parts of the Confederacy occupied by the Union. All told, it left perhaps 750,000 in bondage.

The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.     142

I'm guns and roses without the roses

There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is nothing gained by giving in to the pressures of group vulgarity.

So there were people who got up at noon, pared their toenails, and sat naked in hotel rooms without regarding each day as an apocalypse. Amazing! If someone had burst into my room and found me naked and paring my nails, I would have died of shock. Or would I? Maybe I was stronger than I thought.

If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor -- as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind.

Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, Don't embarrass the family.

Though most of the punished witches were neither propertied nor powerful, the constant reminder of what patriarchal power could do to uppity, solitary, or rebellious women must have gone a long way toward keeping the mass of women in their place.

if sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body - and with it your own voice - and that's the most revolutionary insight of all

The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead.

She is the witch. You wish you were she. Except when the time comes for burning.