Quotes About Rebellion

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.

Truants like you should understand art. The way to free y'rself from any system of control is to do something useless.

The way to free yourself from any system of control is to do something useless. But do it as well as you can!

You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.

Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

put the "freak" in "frequently drunk and belligerent.

As the musical philosopher Lil' Kim has noted, inside every man is a baaaad girl. And that bad girl can scare the bejeezus out of us. The lady makes demands.

Ziggy was a requiem: Bowie came to bury the sixties, not praise them. He hit the road and toured like a madman, spreading the glitter gospel in a rock scene full of interchangeable flannel-and-denim sincerity pimps.

We were just a couple of fallen angels, rolling the dice of our lives. We'd heard all the horror stories of early marriages and fast divorces and broken hearts. But we knew none of them would happen to us, because as Dexy's Midnight Runners sang to Eileen, we were far too young and clever.

Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

And who died and made you boss?" But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my hair back with nimble fingers. Niko slapped a shoulder holster against my chest. "No one. Like all truly great dictators, I seized that power myself. Now finish up. We leave in five minutes.

The ritual nature of 'John Barleycorn', 'Jolly Old Hawk' and 'The Derby Ram', and the sacrificial elements and destructive energy in 'The Cutty Wren', for example, he suspected derived from witch cults, frequently breeding grounds of rebellion and non-conformity.

you cannot please everyone, so why please anyone at all?

From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman ] Still, it's worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of the most powerful institutions - church and army, both. He is an atheist, 'And I have been against all of these wars ever since.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Women wear the breeches… in a word, the world turned upside downward.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.