Quotes About Rebellion

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.'

To be honest, I think affiliation is anathema - if you're a rock 'n' roller, you're a lone wolf.

Seeing Wolf Eyes for the first time - I was fifteen. I had this crazy feeling that this my generation's Stooges. I got infected by that energy.

When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

I've kind of got a rebellious bone. I think I came out of the womb like that.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Women love the bad boy.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.