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Quotes About Rebellion

I was never a hippy, per se.
~ Bill Nighy
Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.
~ Elsa Peretti
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
~ Lauren Bacall
The '20s are a very interesting period to me.
~ Julian Fellowes
My mom would say I'm a good kid... but I put them through a lot. I was rejecting religion and, not permanently, also kind of rejecting the things that they'd taught me, and just trying to think for myself.
~ Daniel Caesar
I tend to do things without my parents' permission.
~ Nicole Seah
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
~ Cheryl Hines
I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.
~ Brea Grant
My father didn't want me to go to New York City, and I was determined to go. Learning to give myself the permission to be who I was in the world and to make my own choices was hard.
~ Betty Buckley
I always joke about how I get excited to go to the grocery store without permission.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.
~ Pierre Joseph Proudhon
To restore religion, gentlemen, it is necessary to condemn the Church.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.
~ Plato
For it may happen to the commonwealth, as to the serpent in the fable, whose tail, rising in rebellion against the head, complained, as of a great grievance, that it was always forced to follow, and required that it should be permitted by turns to lead the way. And taking the command accordingly, it soon inflicted , by its senseless courses, mischiefs in abundance upon itself, while the head was torn and lacerated with following, contrary to nature, a guide that was deaf and blind.
~ Plutarch
Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do.
~ Porochista Khakpour
I've already informed a number of my men. They're as mad as I am. They're waiting in the terminal. A monkey wrench or a laser torch makes a pretty fair weapon. We can take over by force.
~ Poul Anderson
Give me leave, lord, and I will be the best of your hounds – but if a dog be driven out, he will become a wolf and feed on his master's flocks.
~ Poul Anderson
dan modern adalah juga kesunyian manusia yatim-piatu dikutuk untuk membebaskan diri dari segala ikatan yang tidak diperlukan: adat, darah, bahkan juga bumi, kalau perlu juga sesamanya.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Rupanya di bumi jajahan ini setiap orang hidup atas dasar hancur menghancurkan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Aku boleh seorang pelacur! Aku boleh seorang sampah masyarakat! Aku seorang bintang film gagal! Tapi beradat! Tidak. Aku juga punya tanah air. Aku Larasati, bintang ara. Sedang sebutan Miss pun aku tak pernah pakai. Ara! Cukup Ara. Mengapa mesti dengan Miss? Sebutan itu akan membuat aku berkulit putih. Apakah sebutan itu tantangan kaum pria, kalau aku milik siapa saja?
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Mereka membela apa yang mereka anggap menjadi haknya tanpa mengindahkan maut. Semua orang, sampai pun kanak-kanak! Mereka kalah, tapi tetap melawan. Melawan, Minke, dengan segala kemampuan dan ketakmampuan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Akibat perbuatan durhaka satu orang, berapa orang menanggung aniaya? Berapa orang? Termasuk si durhaka itu sendiri - Ranta
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer