Quotes About Rebellion

we so resented that asshole up there talking talking talking taking up the entire assembly expecting us to believe there isn't a special creation of God, or of man, to which we didn't belong, here in the shabby south end of Hammond in the worst damn public school in the district, we didn't belong and never would. And what the hell? ---Such truths, FOXFIRE made softer.

no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.

They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?' 'Being Gulley Jimson,' I said, 'and getting away with it.

If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say "I" too often, then you have a problem with pride. It

Es un chico cabreado, sólo eso. Un chico enfadado con el mundo. Y no es para menos. Mejor que saque su rabia así -escribiendo- y no quemando coches. Esos sí son peligrosos. Esos no respetan nada: ni la ortografía, ni la sintaxis, ni el sentido común.

because he didn't know how to twirl by his ankles, and he didn't want to learn.

For women, deeply personal writing can also be described as a rebellion against the expected role, though in the case of women, the expectation is that we will be preoccupied with inner lives, with relationships, and with family, but that we will gear our stories to satisfy, flatter, or collude with our immediate circle.

Some days, I wish the whole fucking world would just 'phone in sick.

Grow up! Lauren felt as if he had slapped her. Infuriated past reason, she struck back at his ego. You're absolutely right! she blazed. That's what I should do.Beginning today I'm going to grow up and start practicing what you preach! I'm going to sleep with any man who appeals to me. But not with you. You're much too old and too cynical for my taste.Now get out of here!

Love this quotation I just read: "Ciao," the girl said. Fuck you, ciao. Ciao was the way Katherine and her friends said good-bye and it always struck her as a perfect symbol of their attempts to be what they weren't.

Now that's my point about my mother. I mean, if she understands so much about me then why couldn't she understand that I had to wear loafers without socks?

I shoved back my chair and raced around the table, ready to destroy him. "Grandma . . ." Fudge cried. "Heeelp . . . !

at him. No sir!

So what if she ordered an ice cream soda before lunch? Who was going to tell her she couldn't have exactly what she wanted?

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

The voyou is the man who escapes everything that normally holds back other men: studies, family, civic duties, religious practices. The voyou is the adventurer of space, of impassable roads, of the immense freedom of cities and fields.

Foe him, The Doors is the story of a young man who wants to break all the limits of life

There is something about all beards that is like the gesture of thumbing the nose. Thank you very much. Up yours.

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,No more modest than immodest.Unscrew the locks from the doors!Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

Resist much, obey little.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

The key players, it turns out, are those who refuse to be credentialed or curbed by traditional modes of power, who understand that the transformative power of truth is not a credible companion for consolidating modes of established power, but that truth characteristically runs beyond the confines of such power.