Quotes About Rebellion

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

The NFL can go to hell.

In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

I never wanted to be a good example.

If you look at the 'Casi Nada' video, I'm, like, a good girl.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

Drinking made me a lot more free sexually; the restrictions were off. I was a compulsive, compliant 'good girl' by day and a 'bad girl' at night.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

My mom has this thing where if I'm doing anything doing dirty or crazy, she sniffs it out and yells at me. But the good thing is my mom doesn't have cable, and so much of the stuff I've done was on cable, so many times she'll miss it. I tend to gloss over the crazier things I shoot.

Rock n' roll's had a good time out of me - and I've had a very good time out of rock n' roll.

Maybe high school would have been a good time to have a little Dylan McKay in my life.

The more angry and miserable things get at home, the more people want to smack hell out of someone. It doesn't matter who. The American attitude toward the world is, "Not only can I lick anybody in this bar, but I can lick all of you at once.

It is no disparagement to truth, that it can only prevail where reason prevails. War begins where reason ends. The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

most successful one was that of tarring his fence all around; after which, if a slave was caught

Slaveholders have no rights more than any other thief or pirate. They have forfeited even the right to live, and if the slave should put every one of them to the sword tomorrow, who dare pronounce the penalty disproportioned to the crime or say that the criminals deserved less than death at the hands of their long-abused chattels? (The North Star, Volume II, #7 February 9, 1849)

For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people whose fury had so exceeded their judgment that the only thing they could think of to do to express their discontent was to kill somebody.

They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.

i was born a bitch. i was born a painter.

Das gibt dem Menschen seine ganze Jugend, daß er Fesseln zerreißt.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!