Quotes About Rebellion

Damn adulthood. He wanted to send it back for a full refund.

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

I hate the domestic life.

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

Following fashion trends, however ridiculous or uncomfortable.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.