Quotes About Rebellion

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

In other words, the intentional miss can be a very subtle form of disobedience.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Defining the norm is its instrument of control over idiosyncrasy.

Decadent self-expression has no place in rock and roll.

In a world gone soft, the time has come to go outlaw!

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

Robert Burns, author of the book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!,

The truth is, I didn't think wind farms were an effective means of alternative energy so I said so. Back then, at the BBC you had to toe the line and I wasn't doing that.

I am quite happy to be branded a heretic because throughout history heretics have stood up against dogma based on bigotry.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I am not fit to mate with your perfection. At the bottom of my heart, I no longer desire perfection. For we who are tax-payers as well as immortal souls must live by politic evasions and formulae and catchwords that fret away our lives as moths waste a garment; we fall insensibly to common-sense as to a drug; and it dulls and kills whatever in us is rebellious and fine and unreasonable; and so you will find no man of my years with whom living is not a mechanism which gnaws away time unprompted.

This makes no sense. None of it does. But maybe that's the point. Maybe the things that make the least amount of sense are the things you're supposed to do. I don't know. - I look at him, looking back at me. - But one thing I know: I'm not crazy for feeling this way. They're crazy for trying to stop me. And if it's the last time I ever get to feel joy again, I won't let them have it.

James Buckley Jr.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.

You cannot attempt to suggest much less try to explain this to normal people inside the box and is why I always throw in the monkey wrench option of doing it the social way

As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone's life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I'll point at them and laugh.

The Creators," Minho said; then he spat on the floor. "I'm gonna break your faces!

Newt stood to join Thomas and jabbed a finger in his face. "You listen to me, Greenie. You listenin' all nice and pretty?" Thomas surprisly didn't feel that indimidated. He rolled his eyes, but then nodded. "You better stop this nonsense, before others hear about it. That's not how it works around here, and our whole existence depends on things working.

Yeah, we've heard that before. This time we mean it. We're not going to sit back and let you treat us like rats anymore. We're done.