Quotes About Rebellion

It was on old joke among underfed, angry sailors that should mutiny fail, the weight of their bodies would not be enough to hang them.

why he and his fellow freebooters fought Colonel William Rhett and the vessels sent by the government against them. Bayley probably brought a roar of laughter from those attending the trial when he answered, "We thought it had been a pirate.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra?

I'm not senile, I snapped. If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

No one wants to die," said Becka. "But some people don't want to live in any of the ways that are allowed.

It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

How tedious is a tyranny in the throes of enactment. It's always the same plot.

There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.

They should have never given us uniforms if they didn't want us to be an army.

I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them.

What possesses them, these young girls with a talent for self-immolation?

I knelt to examine the floor, and there it was, in tiny writing, quite fresh it seemed, scratched with a pin or maybe just a fingernail, in the corner where the darkest shadow fell: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.

On the way home from school we go to the record store... [Cordelia] expects me to roll my eyes in ecstasy, the way she does; she expects me to groan. She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving, now that we're in high school. But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.

That was the original idea, but once you've got a controlled population with a wall around it and no oversight, you can do anything you want.

Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

Aunt Vidala said that best friends led to whispering and plotting and keeping secrets, and plotting and secrets led to disobedience to God, and disobedience led to rebellion, and girls who were rebellious became women who were rebellious, and a rebellious woman was even worse than a rebellious man because rebellious men became traitors, but rebellious women became adulteresses.

I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.

I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag.

They have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don't care what people think. They have escaped, though what it is they've escaped from isn't clear to us. We think that their bizarre costumes, their verbal tics, are chosen, and that when the time comes we also will be free to choose. That's what I'm going to be like

How tedious is a tyranny in the throes of enactment.

If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.

You're not my real parents, every child has thought. I'm not your real child. But with orphans, it's true. What freedom, to thumb your nose authentically!