Quotes About Rebellion

'Trainspotting' is among my favourite films of all time.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

The comedians I always loved and respected the most were always filthy degenerates.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

I just don't fit into the box.

We didn't feel we fitted into the '80s.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?

My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?

I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

I kind of watch a guy like Aleister Black go around, and he does whatever he wants. He Black Masses whoever he wants. He beats up security guards; he threatens general managers. Tommaso Ciampa does whatever he wants.

I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them.

When I was at school, I was forced to play lacrosse, a game in which tiny, rock-hard missiles fly at your head, and you must catch them with a stick to avoid a brain haemorrhage. I was regularly punished for not taking part more wholeheartedly.

No one wants to look wholesome at 21!

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.