Quotes About Rebellion

Rebellion is a negative form of living.

I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

After much searching I have found the thing that sets me apart: a sort of stubborn attachment to evil.

For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.

There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.

Familles, je vous hais! foyers clos; portes refermées; possessions jalouses du bonheur.

Maybe there has been a rebellion in this sector. The winner may be systematically mopping up all Patrol bases. That would leave him free to rule the space lanes as he pleases. A very practical and necessary move if there has been a change of government.

Love is in essence subversive.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

And mother, handmaiden to the Lord, says wear this, do that, don't do that, don't say that, sit, close your legs, wear white gloves and don't get them dirty, girls don't climb trees, girls don't run, girls don't, girls don't, girls don't; wasn't nothing girls actually did do of any interest whatsoever. It's when they get you a doll that pees that you recognize the dimensions of conspiracy, its institutional reach, its metaphysical ambition.

They don't act like human beings and they're pretty proud of it so there's no point in pretending they are; though you want to - pretend.

Why are they all trying to make me into a saint? Oh God! Oh God! I want to do things. Stop turning me into a saint.

Alan had become more prepared to go along with the system. It was not that he had ever rebelled, for he had only withdrawn; nor was it now a reconciliation, for he was still withdrawn. But he would take the 'obvious duties' as conventions rather than impositions, as long as they interfered with nothing important.

Alan Turing, however, cared nothing for the opinion of society, and therefore was ahead of his time in laying bare the role of the state.

Why do today's young men insist on marrying? Was this why we all threw stones at the police, for weddings

acts of defiance are their own reward.

ALL HAIL THE NEW ORDER!' chanted the crowd. It was a truly grotesque sight.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

teenagers and toddlers were very much the same. They both liked to leave their mother, so long as their mother did not move.

On the eve of the French Revolution, Burke cautioned that "criminal means, once tolerated, are soon preferred.

I, personally, have never seen a pirate with more than exactly one earring. I pointed out that if I did get my ears pierced again, probably no one would mistake me for a pirate, but Mom and Dad failed to see the humor in that.

Kristy doesn't care much about her appearance. Her brown hair is usually sort of messy, and she wears clothes only because it's against the law to go to school naked.

Dawn has two holes pierced in each ear. (Mary Anne and I will never get our ears pierced.) The