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Quotes About Rebellion

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
~ Jerry Garcia
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
~ Erving Goffman
You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.
~ John Clellon Holmes
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
~ Walt Whitman
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.
~ William Gibson
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
~ John Lydon
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.
~ Inga Muscio
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.
~ Kanye West
If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade
~ Ian MacKaye
Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.
~ Malcolm Mclaren
I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.
~ Tupac Shakur
I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.
~ Tamara de Lempicka
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
~ William O. Douglas
Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.
~ Owsley Stanley
Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
~ Jacques Ellul
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
~ Emma Goldman
Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
~ zola emile ii
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
~ zweig stefan iv
But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature.
~ Zweig, Stefan
But the rules of the game don't simply dictate silence or obedience on the reader's part. What sustains the bond — the bondage, if you'll allow it — is its volatility. The dominant party is always vulnerable, the submissive party always capable of rebellion, resistance or outright refusal.
~ A.O. Scott
Girl, interrupted.
~ ?Susanna Kaysen
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
~ Abraham Lincoln