Quotes About Rebellion

Christianity is incendiarism; Christ Himself says, 'I am come to set fire on the earth'…official Christianity is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

For all that Starfleet insisted on military protocol, their officers had a tiresome tendency to question everything.

Hey you, long face,' shouted an elderly gent who must have been at least seventy years old, but who was dancing through the flooded, rainy streets, waving a rolled umbrella like a sword. 'Don't you sing those Tragedy Songs round here.

the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves.

The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.

A poet's work,' he answers. 'To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

By the end of the Latin lesson he was a hard-line atheist, and to prove it, he marched determinedly into the school tuckshop during break and bought himself a ham sandwich. The flesh of the swine passed his lips for the first time that day, and the failure of the Almighty to strike him dead with a thunderbolt proved to him what he had long suspected: that there was nobody up there with thunderbolts to hurl.

I've got tattoos, I'm subculture. Some kind of post-teen bag lady, that's me.

For, as the myths tell us, it is by defying the gods that human beings have best expressed their humanity.

Sing against death. Command the wildness of the city.

Putting both your hands in your pockets was against the rules. So was 'running in the corridors'. However, fagging – acting as an older boy's unpaid servant – and beating were still permitted. Corporal punishment could be administered by the housemaster or even by the boy named as Head of House.

But the city in its corruption refused to submit to the dominion of the cartographers

TO BE A LAWYER in a lawless time was like being a clown among the humorless: which was to say, either completely redundant or absolutely essential.

Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...

They like the making of mischief, mayhem, anarchy. They have traditionally lacked management skills.

Eventually, the photographer had tried to catch her unawares, but she seized his camera and broke it over his skull. Fortunately, he lived; but there are no photographs of my grandmother anywhere on the earth. She was not one to be trapped in anyone's little black box. It was enough for her that she must live in unveiled, barefaced shamelessness—there was no question of allowing the fact to be recorded.

Tik?jimas-Dievo dovana mums, o protas-m?s? paaugliškas maištas prieš j?. Suaug? mes visiškai atsid?sime tik?jimui, nes tam esame gim?.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. - Notebook, 1894

No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.