Quotes About Rebellion

If she had listened to her father, if she had listened to the cousin's husband, she would never have married Note and the years of unhappiness would never have occurred. But they did, because she was headstrong, as everyone is at the age of twenty, and when we simply cannot see, however much we may think we can . The world is full of twenty-year-olds, she thought, all of them blind.

He wondered why he had ignored parental advice, and decided that it was because it was parental – that was why.

They might have pictures of skulls on the backs of their leather jackets, but in their case these were really pictures of their last X-ray rather than threats.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.

We've got enough folks spouting those words around here. It's to the point now where even if I wanted to get married, I would resist just to keep from running with the herd.

I can't believe I'm thirty-one-years-old, lying on my back on a pier in broad daylight--in my own hometown, I might add--trying to figure out a place to go make out." "Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Indigos express their "rage against the machine" in many different ways. Fashion

It is better to exist unknow to the law.--Irish Proverb

I felt the joy of knowing that in some small way I had fought back against someone who wanted to rule me against my will. I said no.

It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

liberty means the only lasting road to order and discipline and self-control. Once again, for the thousandth time, people needed to be reminded that the reign of the tyrant who imposes laws on human souls from the outside (even though that tyrant intends nothing but the best for his subjects and be called "teacher"), produces smothered rebellion,

It struck her as extremely characterless for any human being to sit around waiting for execution. It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?

You're always cutting your nose off to spite your face. I've never met a woman as stubborn as you. Even when it's not in your interests you'll do something to make a point.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you.

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

Cuando empezamos a cuestionar todas las maneras en que nos han dicho que debíamos ser, podemos empezar a editar y rescribir las grabaciones antiguas. Rompiendo las normas, a la vez nos liberamos y nos empoderamos.

When we begin to question all the ways we have been told we ought to be, we can begin to edit and rewrite our old tapes. By breaking the rules, we both free and empower ourselves.

Rock music carried the Woodstock Nation's banner while television represented much of what the bands and their audience stood against. More than a wasteland, TV was the idiot engine of the Establishment, electronic opiate of the consumerist masses, and thus a favorite object of ridicule and contempt.

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.