Quotes About Rebellion

After centuries of bemoaning the fact that the young are too rebellious and disrespectful, the problem today, it appears, is that they are not rebellious and disrespectful enough. They aren't willing to challenge conventional wisdom, neither the liberal pieties that offended Allan Bloom nor the conservative ones that gall Deresiewicz. After having been pilloried for trying to destroy the bourgeois order in the 1960s and 1970s, the youth are now scorned for being too bourgeois.

mihotoke ni / shini mukeoreba / tsuki suzushi4 I've turned my back On Buddha How cool the moon!

don't. So there.

Später werden ihr die Leute sagen, sie soll nicht mit Zigeunern spielen, so wie sie ihr sagen, sie solle nicht alleine trampen, oder sich das Gesicht von einem Hund ablecken lassen, aber sie achtet sowieso nicht besonders darauf, was ihr die Leute sagen.

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

If I were someone else, I'd go along with you all. But since I'm what I am, lay off! Go to hell without me, Or let me go there by myself! Why do we have to go together?

Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't wish to be, and don't even wish to be taken for being. Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us. [23](Zenith trans.)

One needs a certain intellectual courage to recognize unflinchingly that one is no more than a scrap of humanity, a living abortion, a madman not yet crazy enough to be locked up; but, having recognized that, one needs even more spiritual courage to adapt oneself perfectly to one's destiny, to accept without rebellion, without resignation, without a single gesture or attempt at a gesture of protest, the elemental curse nature has laid upon one.

I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry.

No subordinarse a nada, ni a un hombre ni a un amor ni a una idea; tener siempre la independencia distante que consiste en no creer en la verdad ni, si la hubiese, en la utilidad de conocerla, ése es el estado en el que, según me parece, deber transcurrir en sí misma, la vida intelectual de los que no viven sin pensar.

Aquela corja tinha nascido para escravos. Queriam ser anarquistas à custa alheia. Queriam a liberdade, logo que fossem os outros que lha arranjassem, logo que lhe fosse dada como um rei dá um título! Quase todos eles são assim, os grandes lacaios!

We secretly hate paradise.

Only those who are unable to think what they feel obey grammatical rules.

To conform is to submit and to win is to conform, to be beaten. That is why all victories are essentially vulgar.

To dodge the rules and say useless things sums up the essentially modern attitude.

La historia me absolverá!

My heroine already is, and is Hulga.

Ah! sempre la stessa musica![...] Sempre i doveri: ecco una parola che mi toglie il fiato. Un mucchio di vecchi stupidi in panciotto di flanella e di bigotte con lo scaldino e il rosario che continuano a cantarci negli orecchi: Il dovere! Il dovere! Eh, maledizione, il dovere è sentire quello che è veramente grande, il dovere è amare quello che è veramente bello, il dovere è non accettare tutte le convenienze sociali, con il cumulo di ignominie che ci impongono.

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.

I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.

We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.