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Quotes About Rebellion

God sent His Prince, Jesus, into rebel territory to conquer evil and free us to be true citizens of the Kingdom again... That's the essential story we find in the Bible, and it's the essential story at the heart of each of our lives. And that's what all good fantasy stories have at their core, whether or not it's a conscious theme.
~ Sarah Arthur
One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"
~ Quentin Tarantino
I saw a lot when I was young. The first time I got arrested I was twelve years old.
~ Rakim
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.
~ Vince Neil
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
~ James Gould Cozzens
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
~ Rick Springfield
Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
~ Loretta Lynn
I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.
~ Diane Cilento
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
~ Andrew Vachss
I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.
~ Clemence Poesy
Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.
~ Anne Clark
Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
~ Mary Ruefle
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.
~ Frank Zappa
I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.
~ Johnny Cash
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
~ Steven Morrissey
Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again
~ Tom Petty
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
~ Margaret Mead
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
~ Lenny Kravitz
Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
~ Alice Walker
I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
~ Amy Winehouse
There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.
~ Anurag Kashyap