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Quotes About Rebellion

Kalau Dedes tidak takut padamu. Apalagi pada pengawal-pengawalmu. Akupun bisa memerintah mereka!
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. Stand up and die game! Do not add one lunacy to another. Do not add your weakness to the evil that is going to come. That is all I have to say to the world.
~ Prema Nandakumar
What's missing from pop music is danger.
~ Prince Rogers Nelson (Prince)
Carmen will always be free.
~ Prosper Mérimée
Every law is broken to become a king.
~ Proverb
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
~ Proverb
In olden times, when a king sent his vogt to a village, the peasants received him with flowers in one hand, and arms in the other, and asked him--which law he intended to apply: the one he found in the village, or the one he brought with him?
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
~ Quentin Crisp
The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
~ Quentin Crisp
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
~ Quentin Crisp
These Anti-Establishment Auteurs were as sorry to see the old studio system go busy as the French Revolutionaries were to see Marie Antoinette vacate Versailles
~ Quentin Tarantino
Cliff never wondered what Americans would do if the Russians, or the Nazis, or the Japanese, or the Mexicans, or the Vikings, or Alexander the Great ever occupied America by force. He knew what Americans would do. They'd shit their pants and call the fucking cops. And when they realized the police not only couldn't help them but were working on behalf of the occupation, after a brief period of despair, they'd fall in line.
~ Quentin Tarantino
I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?
~ R. L. LaFevers
she covered her ears with her hands, for fear that old custom of obeying other people's plans for her should prevail yet again.
~ R.A. Dick
I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.
~ R.L. LaFevers
There is none more conformist than one who flaunts his individuality.
~ Rabih Alameddine
The girl strolled past, indifferently, seductively, her eyes hidden by cheap sunglasses. The old man sat up when the girl passed him. "Don't you think your pants are too tight?" he asked. "Kiss my ass, Uncle," she replied. He leaned forward. She kept going. "No one listens anymore," he said quietly.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw... I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Rebelliously, I put out the light in my house, and Your sky surprised me with its stars.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Follow me," Myrnin said. And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.
~ Rachel Caine
when people freed themselves they usually forced change on everyone else. In fact, the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them. Not changing, in other words, deprived them of what they'd gone to such trouble to attain (freedom).
~ Rachel Cusk
No, I don't want to be completed. I prefer to try outrunning whatever's after me. I prefer to stay out, like kids on a summer evening stay out, and won't come in when they're called. I don't want to go in.
~ Rachel Cusk
He had come to the conclusion that most questions were nothing more than an attempt to ascertain conformity, like rudimentary maths problems. Two and two did indeed usually equal four: it was when you gave a different answer, he had discovered, that people got upset.
~ Rachel Cusk