Quotes About Rebellion

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.

The most certain and well-attested fact about Jesus of Nazareth is that he was tried, sentenced and executed by the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate on a charge of high treason. This does not make him unique. Many thousands of Jewish rebels and revolutionaries were crucified by the Roman rulers of Palestine during this period.

Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.

Desde siempre, el poder del lector ha suscitado toda clase de temores (...)temor al lector individual que puede, a partir de un texto, redefinir el universo y rebelarse contra sus injusticias.

I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you? asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. I ate civilization.

I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.

I'll MAKE you be free whether you want to or not.' -The Savage

All right then," said the savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.