Quotes About Rebellion

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

The next day, eating a turkey sandwich with salt and mayonnaise, Rebecca decided Thanksgiving was the best holiday, although she had little to choose from: her family never celebrated Hanukkah but her father was militant about ignoring Christmas and insisted they spend December 25 eating Chinese takeout and going to the movies.

In Wildfell Hall, moral disease has become a norm.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!

Sometimes old people have really old-fashioned ideas, but that doesn't mean I have to go along with them.

Sometimes old people have really old-fashioned ideas, but that doesn't mean I have to go along with them.

Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

Dreadlocks make people wonder if you're trying to be rebellious.

She wears latex bicycle shorts nearly every day, and I will tell you why: because she can. I consider it an act of aggression against the rest of us mothers who forgot to start working out after we had kids.

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must.

Boy, the young are angry at us. Good. This is what usually changes the world, although it's a new experience to be the us the young are mad at.

Complacency and ignorance, Zebara suggested, pouring more brandy. A very good way to keep a large population so tractable the society lacks rebellion.

I do not always observe the rules of society, but I am quite aware of what they are!

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid. - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

Claudia, you've been a very very naughty little girl.

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.

I am such a bad girl, she thought. Yet...

Yes.' He drank it all down and then casually threw the glass at the fireplace. I stared at the fragments. 'You don't mind, do you?' He gestured to the broken glass with a sarcastic smile. 'I surely hope you don't, because there's nothing much you can do about it if you do mind.

Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?