Quotes About Rebellion

I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.

I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!

I've been taking off my tie for a lot of years. When I take it off, I usually throw it down.

There was a rule at Rangers, going back to the 1950s, that players needed to turn up for every training session dressed in a suit and tie. I was a teenager. You'd have been lucky to see me in a jacket even on a Sunday - it just wasn't my style.

I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.

We didn't want to be tied to that damn teenybopper market. We tried to convince our record company that we could do more than silly AM hits, but they wouldn't listen.

Growing up, my aunts would always put in hair ties and bows and all kinds of stuff, and I always hated it.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

When I started out, the idea of wearing interesting clothes seemed to contradict the idea of being a serious artist. The first Moloko record, 'Do You Like My Tight Sweater?' was kind of a reaction to all that.

Sredni Vashtar went forth,His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death.Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful.

Memmius:) But perhaps you are not yet weary of the tyranny of these men; perhaps these times please you less than those when kingdoms, provinces, laws, rights, the administration of justice, war and peace, and indeed every thing civil and religious, was in the hands of an oligarchy; while you, that is, the people of Rome, though unconquered by foreign enemies, and rulers of all nations around, were content with being allowed to live; for which of you had spirit to throw off your slavery?

I smoked, I drank, I skipped classes, I snuck out, I took drugs, I stole quarts of ice cream for my dorm by breaking into the kitchen storerooms, I made out with my boyfriends in the library basement, I hitchhiked into town and down I-91, and when caught, I weaseled out of all of it . . . There is no need to switch on the fog machine of ambiguity around these facts: I was still a problem child.

If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Ser joven y no ser revolucionario, es una contradicción hasta biológica

Essere giovane e non essere rivoluzionario è una contraddizione perfino biologica." - I vecchi giovani e i giovani vecchi - discorso tenuto nel dicembre del 1972 "Ser joven y no ser revolucionario, es una contradicción hasta biológica." - a una gran cantidad de estudiantes de la Universidad de Guadalajara en México.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

I have always been an anarchist and a monarchist.

Oslové by cht?li, abych dodržoval rady, které vyhlašuji pro ostatní. To je nemožné, já jsem totiž zcela odlišný.

In a depressed era when most young adults grasped for any foothold they could find, the nineteen-year-old Smith had already given up a major university scholarship and challenged a prominent magazine's editorial boundaries until he was fired. He wouldn't follow his father's burdened, suit-and-tie path to an early death; he might kill himself, but in a different way.

Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.' He scratched his chin. 'That's why I'm keeping a low profile--so the bastards don't get me.

Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

She's not very old but the cigarettes help her to feel like she is.