Quotes About Rebellion

I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

Rose had enough of standing back and doing nothing. Of being told to sit still and behave and go to work and wear this and say that, of being told what to do by men, and boys, and her mother, and teachers, and bosses, and boyfriends, by the Doctor and the Nestene and everyone in between. Above her, the world was ending. In front of her, the Doctor was dying. At her feet, Mickey was blubbing. Well, to hell with that.

Just try it," he murmurs, reaching over to cover my hand gently. And I think, Whoa, that's never happened before! Then: Is he just doing that because he thinks Wyatt is interested? And, finally, this: Who the hell cares?!

That's the problem with doing the wrong things. You're never satisfied. At some point, the misbehavior loses its thrill, and you need to seek out something that pushes more boundaries.

Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.

Kids hated. That's what we did. It's what we do best. We hate our hair, our zits, our friends, our parents... We hate, we hate, we hate, we hate, all no differently than how kids have hated for centuries.

Obeying an unjust law is itself unjust.

Scientists are often seen as turbonerds, but the philosophical foundations of science are actually those of pure punk-rock anarchy: never respect authority, never take anyone's word on anything, and test all the things you think you know to confirm or deny them for yourself.

Doing something your not supposed to do can be just as harmful as not doing something you are supposed to do.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills.

Against fashion, even tyrants struggle in vain, she thought.

Tak d?ugo byli?cie antykonformistami, a? wreszcie upad?y ostatnie normy, przeciw którym mo?na si? by?o jeszcze buntowa?. Dla mnie nie zostawili?cie ju? nic, nic! Brak norm sta? si? wasz? norm?. A ja mog? si? buntowa? tylko przeciw wam, czyli przeciwko waszemu rozpasaniu.

I am not seditious. I do not want to stir up people's ideas and feelings. If I take off the blouse of culture and society, then it is naked. I do not try to put clothes back on, because that is not my job.

She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

When you have nothing to lose, you have the freedom to thumb your nose at the rules set by others.

But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.

It went from fuck music to fuck-you music.

When human nature rebels against Mother Nature, humanity becomes a cancer on the earth. The natures of all things are nested within nature as a whole. When you reject what life gives you, you place yourself in opposition to nature—including your own nature—and so harm yourself.

to grumble at anything that happens is a rebellion against Nature, in some part of which are bound up the natures of all other things.

Jesus was offering forgiveness to all and sundry, out there on the street, without requiring that they go through the normal channels. That was his real offense.