Quotes About Rebellion

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way that they have been told to.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Heaven's justice and righteousness must be recognized and maintained. Apart from grace, you find yourself bankrupt and insolvent, desperately in debt and helpless to meet God's judgment. Therefore, your only hope is to fly to the wounded side of the Lord, who in His life kept God's law perfectly and in His death paid the price of your rebellion.

Prometheus stole fire from the gods so that humans could become like gods.

If a kid refuses to take a nap, is he guilty of resisting a rest?'

The rise of placelessness, on top of the sense that the whole planet is now minutely known and surveilled, has given this dissatisfaction a radical edge, creating an appetite to find places that are off the map and that are somehow secret, or at least have the power to surprise us.

When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.'

It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.

I've grown up around that sort of petty crime, getting into trouble and trying to get out of it. What's funny is my dad was an inspector in the police, so I was known as the grass.

I went through an anti-Establishment phase and thought we should get everything for free.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

I went through a Billy Idol phase. I had white hair when Peter Rizzo hired me at Barneys.

I went through that phase where I shaved the entire side of my head off - I actually love the way it looks, but it doesn't really work when you're walking into a room for an audition.

There was the phase I went through where I'd put streaks of red food colouring in my fringe as some kind of budget instant hair dye. Fine until it rained and I looked like I'd had a head injury.

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.

It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.

Once you are in full Sharon Needles mode, you don't feel fear, you don't feel physical pain, and you also don't feel your own moral filter any longer.

Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.