Quotes About Rebellion

Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.

We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

Rihanna is a pothead and so am I, so we're real cool. Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let's be clear about that.

This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

She did not move. She had her eyes closed. I don't care, she said after a few moments of silence, about tomorrow or about propriety or about anything except tonight and this place. And you.

It's not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses.

When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works. And the hundredth boy? We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one.

In his own soul, he knew with sudden certainty that it was not rebellion or doubt or even sin that broke God's heart; it was indifference.

Et diye yedikleriniz meydan okuyor, et diye yedikleriniz ba? kald?r?yor, et diye yedikleriniz sava??yor! Et diye yediklerinizin nefesi ensenizde...

I would not have voted for the man," Doc admitted, "but this—" He lifted a fine-boned hand toward the street, where small groups of Cow Boys were now tearing down Allen on horseback, shooting at the sky and racing beyond the city limits before the police could do anything about the ruckus. "This is indecent.

There are a thousand ways for a boy of fifteen to go wrong. The most gently reared will lash out, battered by gusts of mindless fury. The brightest can be swamped by black despair. The sweetest may turn sullen and withdrawn. The most rational are quick to anger.

To be candid, things hadn't been good in our house since I'd turned thirteen and, as Mom put it, lost my mind overnight. Which meant I'd changed from an obedient child who never gave anyone a second's trouble into an obnoxious teenager who left wet towels on the bathroom floor and dirty dishes in front of the television, played loud music and argued about everything from politics to curfews.

He longed for a dim-eyed little slut with a big, bright mouth and black vinyl underwear.