Quotes About Rebellion

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Personally more so than shock, I think, rap music has to be born of rebellion.

There are some people bent on blowing up the situation in the country. I call them the fifth column. They are not an opposition. They want to stage a rebellion in the country. Their dream is to topple the government and overthrow the president.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

My philosophy - inclusive and pluralist Islam, dedicated to service to human beings from every faith - is antithetical to armed rebellion.

It was a little bit strange as an English woman cast in 'Rebellion.' I read up about the events and, honestly, I knew very little about it to begin with it. It wasn't something that they cover in English schools at all.

From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I've always been a rule-breaker and a rebel. For me, drag has always been about rebellion, but also escapism. I think being able to creatively direct your own world is super powerful - and it's beautiful.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

Rebellion' was amazing, there was a lot of anticipation leading up to that event.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

I think, initially, my rebellion, my rebellion of going to college when my dad would have liked me to stay home and work in the herbs, I think that it was a pretty mild rebellion in the sense that I thought, 'Well, I'm going to go learn how to be a music teacher so that I can come home and do choir.'

We have 5000-year-old history which is now almost a part of our DNA. How do you break that? America, for example, doesn't have that history behind it. It romanticizes rebellion. We look down upon rebellion. It's an insult. To think out-of-the-box is looked down upon here.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.