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Quotes About Rebellion

If I ever form my own clan, we'll be the Anti-Cheerleaders. We will not sit in the bleachers. We will wander underneath them and commit mild acts of mayhem.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Picasso. He whispers like a priest. Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
What if a king made bad laws; laws so unnatural that a country broke them by declaring its freedom?" He threw his arms in the air. "Now you are spouting nonsense. Two slaves running away from their rightful master is not the same as America wanting to be free of England. Not the same at all." "How is it then that the British offer freedom to escaped slaves, but the Patriots don't?
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees that when they get to high school they'll love detention because it's a great place to sleep.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Of course I want to be a model. I want to paint my eyelids gold. I saw that on a magazine cover and it looked amazing-- turned the model into a sexy alien that everyone would look at but nobody dared touch.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Maybe we'll run away to South America after the funeral and raise goats
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I said "shit" in front of the church ladies
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The officer kicked the stool away. This time the rope did not break.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.
~ Lawrence Block
Well, you got me there, I could have said. You're right, I broke the rules, I didn't play fair. And you know what? Fuck you.
~ Lawrence Block
Or cut my own throat as I had cut the throat of the girl. Wolfe Tone, jailed after the Irish Rebellion of 1798, had sawed through his throat with a penknife. I wondered if I could do the same. Would the hand falter?
~ Lawrence Block
When I have a look at my own albums, it strikes me how thin they'd be but for war and rebellion.
~ Lawrence Block
Youth is the age of despairs.
~ Lawrence Durrell
And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.
~ Lawrence Durrell
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.
~ George Berkeley
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
~ Thomas Carlyle
When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.
~ Ryan Adams
To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high)
~ David Rawlings
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
~ Steven Adler
We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
~ Freeman Dyson
Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.
~ Paul Feyerabend