Quotes About Rebellion

How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?

It's like a letter-writing society. They approach it like poetry. Not all of it is rebellious, some of it is quite beautiful. Just art, from kids who live in a world where they'll likely never see art. At least not officially.

Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.

Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down.

Being in love is totally punk rock.

When I was just a little girl I asked my mummy, "what should I be?" "Fuck should," she said.

I want to rob lumber mills and hospitals with you, and just bewilder the hell out of people, the way love should.

I break into heterosexual houses so I can masturbate in their heterosexual kitchens

Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to goI wanna be sedatedNothing to do, nowhere to goI wanna be sedated

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

Count it, Marcie." She managed to get the first finger out. She was pretty sure she was losing her mind, because she chose her middle finger.

The outlaw, the revolutionary, the cabbalist or member of a secret society, indeed heretics of all kinds are of a highly associative if not sociable disposition, and a certain element of play is prominent in all their doings.

Eastern philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

His eyes flashing, Leary13 evangelized on a cascade of TV shows that he was the founder of a new religion, with cannabis and LSD as its sacraments. These drugs should, he said, be given to twelve-year-olds so they can "fuck righteously14 and without guilt"—and to prove the point he gave them to his own young teenage15 children, even as they went slowly insane.16

It would be as if the Navy Seals defected from the U.S. Army to help the Crips take over Los Angeles--and succeeded.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

Alle Revolutionselemente, alles Menschheitsempörende, was sie wo anders in Großen haben, das haben wir Krähwinkler in Kleinen. Wir haben ein absolutes Tyrannerl, unsern Bürgermeister, wir haben ein unverantwortliches Ministeriumerl, ein Bureaukratieerl, ein Censurerl, Stadtschulderln weit über unsere Kräfterln, also müssen wir auch ein Revolutionerl und durch's Revolutionerl ein Constitutionerl und ein Freyheiterl krieg'n.

Only the perverse fantasy can still save us.

I am the Spirit that always denies!

Life's too short to be organized.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

The status quo sucks.