Quotes About Rebellion

Only dead fish swim with the current.

Fuckers in school telling me, always in the barber shop Chief Keef ain't 'bout this, Chief ain't 'bout that

Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.

The best thing about religion is that it makes for heretics.

Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Nefericire cel ce vrea s?-ÅŸi p?streze originalitatea! Ei bine, asta e. Am sa ma apar impotriva tuturor! PuÅŸca, unde mi-e puÅŸca? (Se întoarce cu faÅ£a c?tre capetele de rinoceri din fundal ÅŸi strig?) Am s? m? ap?r împotriva lumii întregi, m? voi ap?ra! Sunt ultimul om ÅŸi voi r?mîne aÅŸa pîn? la cea din urm? suflare! Nu m? dau b?tut!

Where am I? What the hell difference is it? There's plenty o' fresh air and the moon fur a glim. Don't be so damn pertic'lar!

Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Ibsen! Atheists, fools, and madmen! And your poets! This Dowson, and this Baudelaire, and Swinburne and Oscar Wilde, and Whitman and Poe! Whoremongers and degenerates!

Because God's reality is reality, there is no way to escape it. Because it is goodness itself, there is no way to defy it with anything but evil. When it comes to the politics of rebellion and change, the rebel can either seek to work in partnership with God's creation or find himself outside it and thus in hell.

Faster' by the Manic Street Preachers:

I wanted my unhappiness to be a result of defying convention—like a Hardy novel where I'd exceeded my society's allowance for freethinking and was now being punished.

Although the crew of Skylab 4 did a kind of mutiny back in 1973 when they thought they were being pushed too far. Ultimately they returned to work; although NASA never let any of the men fly again.

Authority." I say the word as if it's a foreign expression I've heard for the very first time. "What about me makes you think that's a word I care for or yield to?

Want to give up saving the world and come play with me?" There is something utterly fearless about her that I admire. While I've been fretting about how to put my skills to better use for humanity and almost dying or getting imprisoned in the process, here's a free spirit who's decided to let the world figure its own shit out while she has a blast making a fortune's worth of fuck-you money.

As she once remarked, "Disobedience is my joy.

could never brook authority or discipline.

If you treat the mob with kindness,' he told Joseph later, 'these creatures fancy themselves invulnerable; if you hang a few, they get tired of the game, and become as submissive and humble as they ought to be.

Fuck love and just get fat.

Some people have a personality disorder where they just have to go against the herd, right or wrong. They're so committed to their own lone-wolf image that...Well, put it this way: if the others suddenly came over to their side, they'd switch sides.

Conqueror's glory be damned. I hadn't even managed to wash my hair in a week.

Women don't have a say in my house. But, just between us, don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again." "You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?" "No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.

Madam Yennefer, Forgive me. I'm riding to Hirundum because I want to see Geralt. I want to see him before I start school. Forgive my disobedience, but I must. I know you'll punish me, but I don't want to regret my indecision and hesitation. If I'm to have regrets, let them be for deeds and actions. I'm an enchantress. I seize life by the scruff of the neck. I'll return when I can. - Ciri

I won't put up with such remarks, particularly from spies, of all people! I'm the king, for fuck's sake!