Quotes About Rebellion

I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

Incluso en mi niñez lo tuve prohibido, y aunque a veces subía por los tejados y miraba a través de la ventana lo que mis antepasados habían guardado en esa oscura habitación nunca supe lo que se ocultaba. Ahora estoy allí, y nadie me ha detenido.

Revolutionaries can't afford to worry about tomorrow.

I don't do drugs, I've never been arrested, and from what I hear, I'm not too shabby in bed. Not that any of you people will ever have the opportunity to discover that first-hand!

the other boy, at Farthing, hadn't been reasurring. His father certainly hadn't been. Mustard's marching orders had been clear. He was supposed to come to Blackbrook and keep his nose clean, not get involved in two separate murders and make out with a cute guy in an abandoned building. But Plum just kept being there. Undeniable. Inevitable. Like lots of things were, he supposed.

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

The poem is smarter than the poet and more rebellious. A strong poem will override its author's initial intentions.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

his genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.

L'avait-elle déjà fait, d'ailleurs ? Il y a en elle quelque chose de totalement virginal : une liberté rêche, une intransigeance rêveuse, une mélancolie sans prise.

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

But the false serpent persuaded Adam that he must still do something to become like God: he must achieve that likeness by deciding and acting for himself...He wanted instead to unravel the mystery of his being for himself, to make himself what God had already made him. That was the Fall of man.

To reproach in a modern tyranny a people as a whole for failing to revolt is as if one would reproach a prisoner for failing to escape from a heavily guarded prison.

That the lie portrays the truth as lie is the ultimate possible rebellion. It is the abyss of the lie that it lives because it sets itself up as truth and condemns the truth as lie.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

I might have known better, nothing is what everybody wants, the world runs on that law. Personally, if I could, I would instigate Meat-Axe Day, and out of the goodness of my heart I would whack your head off with a couple of others. Every man should be allowed one day and a hatchet just to ease his heart.

The implication of nonconformity is intolerable to Communists.

Resistance is useless.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.

The bozo who's going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn't give a fuck about convention.

Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution.