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Quotes About Rebellion

That rebellion of mine was an important turning point in my life.
~ Agatha Christie
Nowadays young people seem to think they can just go about doing anything they choose.
~ Agatha Christie
Flora is like all these young girls nowadays, with no veneration for their betters and thinking they know best on every subject under the sun,
~ Agatha Christie
Put that in your moustache and smoke it.
~ Agatha Christie
The whole world desperately needs a French revolution, immediately.
~ Ahmad F. Hedayat
Desperate times calls for rambunctious behavior" -Mental Hell
~ Ahmed Korayem
Che Guevara] was a man who lived his life in the future tense, in permanent rebellion against the world made by capital and empire, and as fighter for revolutionary transformation of that world.
~ Aijaz Ahmad
Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires proditoires trompeter ses défaites écoute aux alibis grandioses son piètre trébuchement Pitié pour nos vainquers omniscients et naïfs !
~ Aimé Césaire
Cada dia que passa, cada denegação de justiça, cada repressão policial, cada reivindicação operária afogada em sangue, Cada escândalo sufocado, cada expedição punitiva, cada ônibus da Compañia Republicana de Seguridad, cada policial e cada miliciano, nos fazem sentir o preço de nossas ancestrais sociedades.
~ Aimé Césaire
Liberté mon seul pirate.
~ Aimé Césaire
Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia
~ Aimee Bender
But you never know what you can create if you put your heart into it unreservedly, and never let anyone else make you feel as if you don't belong. Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.
~ Aisha Tyler
Attica! Attica! Attica!
~ Al Pacino
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
~ Alain Badiou
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
~ Alain de Botton
Les murs s'effritent : l'actualité force les portes du temple, la liberté des Modernes s'invite dans les cours de récréation et des salles de classe, le présent ne s'oublie jamais, les envies de la vie envahissant l'institution, la société, avec ses codes, ses modes, ses marques, ses emblèmes, ses objets fétiches, ses signes d'appartenance et de reconnaissance, déferle à l'école. (p49)
~ Alain Finkielkraut
To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.
~ Alain Robbe-Grillet
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
~ Alan Ball
Lester starts unbuttoning Angela's blouse. She seems disconnected from what's happened. Lester pulls her blouse open, exposing her breasts.
~ Alan Ball
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
~ Alan Bennett
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting
~ Alan Dean Foster
Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. So everyone had argued and debated and discussed. Until it was too late.
~ Alan Dean Foster
They lined the men up against a wall in the assembly yard. Rat-tat-tat-tat! The watch officer gunned them down himself, riddling their bodies with bullets.
~ Alan Gratz
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
~ Alan Keightley