Quotes About Rebellion

Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,Creations and destroyings, all at oncePour into the wide hollows of my brain,And deify me, as if some blithe wineOr bright elixir peerless I had drunk,And so become immortal.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

Theyd have me out and shoot me the first day they took charge. Anyone like me is intolerably subversive to an authoritarian rgime, because Im not interested in imposing my ideas by force on other people.

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment [Regimen] of Women.

I wouldn't want to be treading too close behind you with the Pyms and the Fermanaghs in this Lobster Quadrille. You never know, I might wear me brown boots with me blue suit, and that would never do.

One afternoon I orchestrated a walkout, and maybe twenty of us took the subway up to Times Square, which was still the Pit of All Sins in those days. It wasn't Disneyfied yet, it was more like this really twisted alternate-universe Disneyland for hookers, strippers, dope addicts, and assorted perverts of every disgusting type. It was like a little strip of Hell right in the middle of Manhattan, unbelievably scuzzy and depraved. Yeah baby.

They hurt you at home and they hit you at schoolThey hate you if you're clever and they despise a foolTill you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rulesA working class hero is something to be

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

The Sid speciality was getting his hair to stick up like Bowie's. He would get two chairs from the living room and put them in front of the oven, open it, and lie upside down with his head inside with the gas on, and the heat would make his hair stiff. He once caught fire that way too. Sometimes it would frizzle at the end, but it was a good look. You know, "How does Dave Bowie get that happening?" "Well, just like you, Sid!

I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Another saying, "The egg didn't like its shell," was used for people who tried to distance themselves from where they came from, or who disrespected their parents.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Or a T-shirt that says Cash Me Outside How Bah Dat.

You should see the other guy..." Teddy says, in this laconic tone that matches her black kimono. She takes a drag on a joint, barely glancing up from the crossword, which she always does in pen.

I replied, 'I do not think as you do.' 'Child, you are not born to think; you were not made to think.

I don't give a sharp-cheddar cheese wedge what your mother says!

Do I look like someone who cares about what God thinks?

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

A woman in the West? You show me one who doesn't drink, and I'll show you one that wants to.

He understands, also, that this offer represents a fundamentally wrong order to the universe. You should bow down and worship Jeoffry! "Right," the devil says. "I thought as much.

I knew she was a political radical, but when you're nineteen that's sexy.