Quotes About Rebellion

It is true I've always loved the daring ones like the black young man who tried to crash all barriers at once, wanted to swim at a white beach (in Alabama) Nude.

Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.

on Stonewall Inn] And while I acknowledge the absurdity of claiming a connection to that mythologized flashpoint...might not a lingering vibration, a quantum of rebellion, still have hung in the humectant air?

Swearing, drunkenness, "haunting bad houses," fighting, and drawing graffiti—hugh penises were a favourite—on the palace walls were all punishable by warnings

Peace and order could only be achieved when all classes of society were in harmony with each other. Disorder – such as heresy, rebellion, or trying to get above one's station in life – was regarded as the work of the Devil and therefore as mortal sin.

President Franklin Roosevelt] was a great tickler of sacred cows not bred on his own pastures.

Paul and Linda were deeply wounded by Seiwell's rebellion. In Henry's case, they knew what the problems were, and they knew he would leave eventually, having already quit once. They even, to a degree, respected him for standing up for his own artistry. But their relationship with Seiwell was not just that of band colleagues. It went back to the Ram sessions and had quickly become a real friendship.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

O victory forget you're underwear we're free.

The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl) They censor words not the things they denote: It would create less of a stir to drop a piece of shit on Grant's tomb than to write it out in white paint. Because people recognize that's what memorials are for–old bums & dogs to shit on.

Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!

Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence

First word … best word.

robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven!

He visto las mejores mentes de mi generación destruidas por la locura

who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy, ...

I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness

I'm not sorry (America)

La generación Beat es sobre todo un movimiento espiritual.