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Quotes About Rebellion

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
~ Jim Harrison
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
~ Jim Hightower
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
~ Jim Hightower
The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
~ Jim Hightower
Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
~ Jim Hightower
America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
~ Jim Hightower
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
~ Jim Morrison
A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
~ Jim Morrison
Where's your will to be weird?
~ Jim Morrison
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
~ Jim Morrison
Where's your will to be weird?
~ Jim Morrison
There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.
~ Jim Morrison
I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
~ Jimi Hendrix
You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
~ Jimi Hendrix
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
~ Jimi Hendrix
If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.
~ Jimi Hendrix
If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.
~ Jimmy Buffet
We are the people our parents warned us about.
~ Jimmy Buffet
[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.
~ Jimmy Cannon
Watching the world try to defy God's authority is like watching a group of two-year olds plotting to take over the house.
~ Jimmy Evans
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. (1 Samuel 15:23a NKJV)
~ Jimmy Evans
You can't love me.' 'Don't be bossy. I can do what the hell I like.
~ Jo Beverley
Alex! Your dress!" Landis called after her. "Come down and we'll find you something else to wear!" Alexis shook her head and laughed. "I told the captain I would need a pair of trousers and he refused me! If the sight of my legs is so distasteful, then don't look!" Landis joined the laughter of the others in response to her suggestion. There was certainly nothing wrong with her legs. They all tilted their heads back as they watched her climb higher.
~ Jo Goodman