Quotes About Rebellion

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

I was a truant. And if you're a truant in New York City, the truant officer gets after you, and then you get into the courts, and then things happen which they really shouldn't. But I ended up in a very sweet reform school. It's the place you go to if you've got a really kind judge.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

I had my pants backward, cut a hole in my baseball cap, stuck my ponytail through it . I wanted to be the third member of Kris Kross.

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

I'm a huge fan of Green Day's album 'American Idiot'; it was just a whole, very thorough experience.

You know, 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' was a great movie that I thoroughly enjoyed.

If I'm feeling in a naughty mood, I'll steal some of Mama's Creme De La Mer. If I'm feeling in a very naughty mood, I'll steal some of Daddy's Creme De La Mer. On the whole though, I'm very low maintenance.

I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.