Quotes About Rebellion

Without all that young stuff, Stamford, you will die a slave. And it will not be a pretty die.

No, no guns, they won't get us anywhere. I tried that when I was young and it's a useless interim game. Use guns and you're no better than the Black and Tans and that's not good enough.

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.

They drew a line that shut me out, Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout! But love and I had the wit to win We drew a circle and brought them in.

ignoble or rebellious, what does it matter? I'm more interested

Lucifer's name means light and the reason they threw him out of heaven and he became the biggest devil and not the biggest saint anymore was what he did with language.

every cow that jumps off the truck can be free will you jump with me

If there is something I will always carry in my heart it is this earnest unwillingness to be part of the bunch

Had I known Mama was going away, I would have thrown a rager.

She must be the apple of her father's eye for she was a plain girl with nothing in her face or figure to indicate she would not remain so. As for rebellion I couldn't detect the slightest twitch of it in her.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

I knew - perhaps I hoped - that no form could ever contain Lila, and that sooner or later she would break everything again.

I behaved like that certainly to feel free from all the old bonds, to make it clear that I didn't care anymore about the judgment of relatives and friends, their values, their wanting me to be consistent with what they imagined themselves to be.

Lila appeared in my life in first grade and immediately impressed me because she was very bad.

La culpa no la tienen quienes se rebelan, la culpa la tienen quienes no saben gobernar.

Fu in quell'occasione che mi convinsi che niente potesse fermarla, e che anzi ogni sua disobbedienza avesse sbocchi che per la meraviglia toglievano il fiato.

Ich kam mir verrückt vor, leichtsinnig, aber ich war froh darüber. Ein Teil von mir war es leid, immer die Vernünftige zu spielen.

Por trás de toda disciplina está o pau, e quando o pau se sente impotente, recorre ao porrete, à polícia, às prisões, ao exército, aos campos de concentração; e se você não se submete, se ao contrário continua questionando tudo, vem o massacre.

Eu me considerava horrível e queria ser cada vez mais horrível. Já havia um tempo que, antes de ir para a escola, eu me empenhava diante do espelho para me vestir e me pentear como uma louca. Queria que as pessoas ficassem de má vontade do meu lado, exatamente como eu tentava mostrar que me sentia na companhia delas.

Sebbene Nino non mi desse corda, il solo intravederlo mi teneva la testa per aria durante le lezioni. La sua presenza qualche aula più' in la', vero, vivo, colto più' dei professori e coraggioso e disobbediente, svuotava di senso i discorsi dei miei insegnanti, le righe dei libri, i progetti di matrimonio, la pompa di benzina lungo lo stradone

Czu?am si? jak postrzelona wariatka, ale podoba?o mi si? to. Jaka? cz??? mnie zm?czy?a si? odgrywaniem osoby rozs?dnej.

Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective.

Uno empieza a saber lo que es un gobierno, se da cuenta de lo que es, cuando este gobierno lanza los tanques a la calle. •Alfonso Salinas Moya, de la Escuela de Odontología de la UNAM