Quotes About Rebellion

The question of paying taxes is a valid one today, particularly for people living under occupation or under an unjust regime. It was a valid one in ancient Israel as well—how much does one go along with the emperor, and when must one resist?

The reference to Quirinius is therefore not a historical factoid; it is designed to remind readers about political leaders who promote armed rebellion.

Contraviniendo consejos abrí el balcón de la sala, solo para oler la cercanía del bosque. Para mi nunca seria peligroso. Pese a las advertencias recibidas, el bosque seguia siendo en mi imaginación y en mis sentimientos el único mundo habitable.

Fue a partir de entonces, cuando yo fui MALA. Para todos, no. Para Tata Maria, Isabel, Jerónimo y Fabián, sólo un poco rara.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

I'll curse all dull Sobriety, Fill'd with Wine's delicious Charms, Fill'd with a Mistress in my Arms.

But canst thou only die, withered embryo, foetus steeped in gall and scalding tears? Miserable abortion, dost thou think thou canst taste death, thou who hast never known life? If only God exists, that he may damn me. I hope for it. I wish it. God, I hate Thee! dost Thou hear? Overwhelm me with Thy damnation. To compel Thee to, I spit in Thy face. I must find an eternal hell, to exhaust the eternity of rage which consumes me.

The simplest surrealist act consists in going into the street with revolvers in your fist and shooting blindly into the crowd as much as possible. Anyone who has never felt the desire to deal thus with the current wretched principle of humiliation and stultification clearly belongs in this crowd himself with his belly at bullet height.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.

I salute Antonin Artaud for his passionate, heroic negation of everything which causes us to be dead while alive.

But Nadja was poor, which in our time is enough to condemn her, once she decided not to behave entirely according to the imbecile code of good sense and good manners.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Man, strip off thy garments, cover thy head with ashes, run into the streets and dance in thy madness.

Le despescuezo el pato, me le como los huevos y le incendio el nido.

Si no llevo la contraria no puedo vivir contenta

Le dedicaré mi vida al ajetreo, y el desorden será mi amo. Ahora durmamos

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point. "No. Just sick of myself." "Why?" "Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas.

No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

I miss my room. I miss my bed. I miss being a little punk with no care in the world, giving two fucks about it, just looking for trouble. I guess I found it.

That was my mom. It was like all the terrible things in the world manifested in her into a rebellion against darkness. A defiant exuberance... There is no way on earth, no God so cruel, no fate so callous, that it would let this particular spirit perish.

It seems to me, dear sister, that you still think the important thing is to become like everybody else. In reality, the important thing is to become different from the others, to discover your uniqueness. You're a rebel by birth, but that doesn't mean much. Your own rebellion is still ahead of you.