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Quotes About Rebellion

And then what about the society you're supposed to be adjusted to? Is it a mad society or a sane one? And even if it's pretty sane, is it right that anybody should be completely adjusted to it?
~ Aldous Huxley
But I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.
~ Aldous Huxley
DziÄ™ki ci, Fordzie! Nie byÅ' ostatni. Trzy spoÅ›ród dwunastu ustawionych wokóÅ' okrÄ…gÅ'ego stoÅ'u krzeseÅ' byÅ'y jeszcze nie zajÄ™te. WÅ›liznÄ…Å' siÄ™ na najbli?sze z nich w miarÄ™ niepostrze?enie i oto ju? gotów byÅ' marszczy? brwi na widok wchodzÄ…cych spó?nialskich. - Bernard Marks, Nowy wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat Aldous Huxley
~ Aldous Huxley
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
~ Aldous Huxley
Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150.
~ Aldous Huxley
Rozumie pan, to jest zakazane. Poniewa? jednak ja tutaj ustanawiam prawa, wi?c i ja mog? je ?ama?. Bezkarnie, panie Marks - doda? zwracaj?c si? do Bernarda - Czego pan, obawiam si?, nie mo?e czyni?. - Mustafa Mond, Nowy Wspania?y ?wiat
~ Aldous Huxley
In the latter half of the twentieth century, two visionary books cast their shadows over our futures. One was George Orwell's 1949 novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, with its horrific vision of a brutal, mind-controlling totalitarian
~ Aldous Huxley
Ben keyif aram?yorum, Tanr?'y? istiyorum,ÅŸiir istiyorum,gerçek tehlike istiyorum,özgürlük istiyorum,iyilik istiyorum. Günah istiyorum. Asl?nda, dedi Mustafa Mond, siz mutsuz olma hakk?n? istiyorsunuz.
~ Aldous Huxley
Yo no quiero comodidad. Yo quiero a Dios, quiero poesía, quiero peligro real, quiero libertad, quiero bondad, quiero pecado. —En suma —dijo Mustafá Mond—, usted reclama el derecho a ser desgraciado.
~ Aldous Huxley
Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself. Yes, at Society itself...
~ Aldous Huxley
The sound-track roll was unwinding itself in Synthetic Anti-Riot Speech Number Two
~ Aldous Huxley
Hubo discursos sobre la libertad, a propósito de ello. Libertad para ser consciente y desgraciado. Libertad para ser una clavija redonda en un agujero cuadrado.
~ Aldous Huxley
Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
~ Aldous Huxley
Ebbene, si disse il Selvaggio in tono di sfida io reclamo il diritto d'essere infelice
~ Aldous Huxley
Ja nie chcÄ™ wygody. Ja chcÄ™ Boga, poezji, prawdziwego niebezpieczeÅ"stwa, wolnoÅ›ci, cnoty. ChcÄ™ grzechu. - Inaczej mówiÄ…c - stwierdziÅ' Mustafa Mond - domaga siÄ™ pan prawa do bycia nieszcz??liwym. - No wiÄ™c dobrze - rzekÅ' Dzikus wyzywajÄ…cym tonem - domagam siÄ™ prawa do bycia nieszcz??liwym.
~ Aldous Huxley
The key of joy is disobedience.
~ Aleister Crowley
Stab your demoniac smile to my brain, Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine
~ Aleister Crowley
I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.
~ Aleister Crowley
Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress.
~ Aleister Crowley
Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress. (Crowley quote from book Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, by Lawrence Sutin.)
~ Aleister Crowley
Decididamente -pensaba- no he nacido para ser lo que hoy se entiende por un buen ciudadano…
~ Alejo Carpentier
I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Novecento, tutto questo è assolutamente contrario al regolamento. Novecento smise di suonare. Era un ragazzino di poche parole e di grande capacità di apprendimento. Guardò con dolcezza il comandante e disse: In culo il regolamento.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively and are still reliably connected to the person who bore your name on the outside.
~ Alexander Masters