Quotes About Rebellion

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

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

We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules, " I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.

Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

I love you silly 'holy' book. Here's hoping everybody un-reads it.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

I loved sports, so acting died and it was all sport. But I always used to get in trouble, because after lights out I would sneak out to watch things on TV.

Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Then, she said, it should be more powerful that this, and she threw it into her woodstove.

What would happen if most people tried to act intelligently on their own behalf? Anarchy. (....) So what can we do with this intelligence we don't need and can't use? Stupefy it. Valium for housewives, glue-sniffing for schoolkids, hash for adolescents, rotgut South African wine for the unemployed, beer for the workers, spirits for me and the crowd I left downstairs fifteen minutes ago.