Quotes About Rebellion

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.

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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

I serve society by rocking!

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.