Quotes About Rebellion

One minute we were sitting at the lowly kitchen table moaning about the sorry state of our lives and the next we were liberating the architecture with heavy projectiles. This was pure, freedom. Better than sniffing glue.

Freedom was what we had. Nobody told us when to go to bed. Nobody told us to do our homework. Nobody told us we couldn't drink two six-packs of Budweiser and then throw up in the Maytag.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth: you get splinters later on.

It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

Little Red Riding Hood was a good story, but it wasn't interactive. Sooner or later I wanted to say 'no, I may be Red Riding Hood but I don't care about my grandmother; what I want is heroin and only heroin,' whereas the game had only 'over the river and through the woods' to offer me. Which was a good story, it just might not me mine.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

Things oughtn't to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.

Who is John Galt?

John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

My dear fellow, who will let you? That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.

But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.

I've wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.

That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning. Prometheus was chained to a rock and torn by vultures—because he had stolen the fire of the gods. Adam was condemned to suffer—because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.

Get the hell out of my way! Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become their dictator.

A thinking child cannot conform. Thought does not bow to authority.

El lector del conjunto de esta obra descubrirá más fácilmente por sí mismo los lazos fortísimos que además le unen al sistema comunista mundial, y a su jefe de filas soviético. Muchos fenómenos que han llamado nuestra atención (la «página en blanco», esa nostalgia del reinicio absoluto, de la tabla rasa; el culto y la manipulación de la juventud) pueden encontrarse fácilmente bajo otros cielos.

With each effort to suppress the spirit of liberty, Great Britain managed only to promote it.

A human being, appearances to the contrary, doesn't create his own purposes. These are imposed by the time he's born into; he may serve them, he may rebel against them, but the object of his service or rebellion comes from the outside. To experience complete freedom in seeking his purposes he would have to be alone, and that's impossible, since a person who isn't brought up among people cannot become a person.

He began thinking about the innocence of machines, about how man had endowed them with intelligence and, in doing so, had made them an accomplice of his mad adventures. About how the myth of the golem—the machine that rebelled against its creator—was a lie, a fiction invented by the guilty for the sake of self-exoneration.

A human being, appearances to the contrary, doesn't create his own purposes. These are imposed by the time he's born into; he may serve them, he may rebel against them, but the object of his service or rebellion comes from the outside.

Lo so: non è la mia arte che è scandalosa, ma la mia vita. Non sono le opere, solo le vite degli artisti potranno d'ora in avanti essere scandalose.