Quotes About Rebellion

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

Camus felt defenseless against these "deep forces rising within me that said 'no.' " No, in a word, to plans for the future, to talk about tomorrow, to things not yet done. Instead, Camus demands the weight of the present, of the earth, of a world shorn of its myths and faith in anything other than what we can see and touch and feel.

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can't think of a higher honor for a writer.

Le daría el consejo que nos dábamos los jóvenes infrarrealistas en México. Cuando teníamos 20, 21 años, teníamos un grupo poético, y éramos jóvenes, mal educados y valientes. Nos decíamos: vivir mucho, leer mucho y follar mucho".

I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.

So I ended up being an anarchist. I was the only anarchist I knew and thank god, because otherwise I would have stopped being an anarchist. Unanimity pisses me off immensely.

Artaud decía que escribir era una marranada, que todos los escritores eran unos cerdos, sobre todo los de ahora. Lo suscribo. Sin embargo, pese a todo, continúo admirando a los jóvenes escritores. De la misma forma que admiro a los jóvenes boxeadores

sandanista or somocista the police is always the police

Ambos habíamos nacido más o menos por las mismas fechas. Ambos habíamos rajado de nuestras respectivas Repúblicas, cuando pasó lo que pasó.

Herein lies one of the book's many virtues: nationalists can't abide it. Its acid humor, like a Buster Keaton movie or a time bomb, threatens the hormonal stability of the idiots who, upon reading it, feel an irresistible urge to string the author up in the town square. Truly, I know of no greater honor for a real writer.

y la pesadilla me decía: crecerás. dejarás atrás las imágenes del dolor y del laberinto y olvidarás. pero en aquel tiempo crecer hubiera sido un crimen. estoy aquí, dije, con los perros románticos y aquí me voy a quedar.

si he de vivir, que sea sin timón y en el delirio

Para nosotros el triunfo es la muerte del intelecto y de la imaginación. Nunca fuimos leales a los triunfadores.

Hasta los jóvenes, que en teoría son la esperanza del cambio, se están convirtiendo en unos motos y en unos puteros. Esto no tiene arreglo, esto sólo se arregla con la revolución.

Y lo que los poetas jóvenes o la nueva generación pretendía era mover el piso y llegado el momento destruir esas estatuas, salvo la de Pacheco, el único que parecía escribir de verdad, el único que no parecía un funcionario.

Nothing enchants the mind more than the existence of the outside world, of something that resists it and will not obey.

He's spent all his life in good-natured rebellion against the tyranny of the unimportant.

Young, Chade suggested. Young and full of righteous fury. Hurt and heartbroken, I suggested. So tired of being thwarted. Tired of being bound by rules that no one else had to follow.

Sa'Adar's eyes went wide. "You're mad." "Scarcely. Why do people always accuse me of that when I'm arranging things to my liking instead of theirs?

No man becomes a pirate because he wants to be ruled by another.

The small folk of a land can only be oppressed so long before they rise up in their own defense, be it against outlanders or an unjust lord of their own.

In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

He barks out a laugh. "My little rebel.

I'd been a long way from the campus but sometimes I felt the vibrations of my peer group. I understood some of the reasons for their revolt. Wasn't my voyage prompted by the same longings for freedom, the same desire to get out of the rut an routine, to prove something to myself - to prove perhaps that a kid doesn't have to be boxed in until he is a mental and spiritual dummy in a business suit?