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Quotes About Rebellion

Tell me the truth, Italian. You don't like it because it's strong. You like it because it's illegal.
~ Beppe Severgnini
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.
~ Bernard Bailyn
slave rebellions occurred on approximately 10 percent of all slave ships
~ Bernard Bailyn
They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body will be argued into slavery.6
~ Bernard Bailyn
Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it
~ Bernard Evslin
Megan should have been grateful and accepted her cute status, what girl doesn't want to be told how lovely she is, how special? except it felt wrong, even at a young age, something in her realized that her prettiness was supposed to make her compliant, and when she wasn't, when she rebelled, she was letting down all those invested in her being adorable
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Penelope found it hard to imagine her mother had once been so rebellious and gregarious she felt sorry for her having to choose between a career or a family which seemed terribly unfair
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Some folk have to react against something: parents, siblings, government, society. They think they have free will, when all they doing is wilfully opposing.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
ever since, he's found the corporate lifestyle so stultifying and soul-destroying, he dreams of living in a wigwam in a field of growing his own food
~ Bernardine Evaristo
NoÅ¡ení klobouku patÃ…â"¢ilo až do Å¡edesátých let k zásadám odívání, které jen málokdo zpochyb?oval, ale které se poruÅ¡ovaly r?znými jinými pokrývkami hlavy, ovÅ¡em nikoli prostovlasostí. Kdo vyÅ¡el ven bez klobouku, dával jasnÄ› najevo, že pohrdá vÅ¡emi spole?enskými normami.
~ Bernhard Roetzel
Unhappy the land that needs heroes.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No
~ Bertolt Brecht
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Sitting and sedition don't mix.
~ Bertolt Brecht
THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Ui: We'll see about that. Walk around, like they do in this Shakespeare guy. (The actor walks around.) ..Good. Givola: You can't walk around like that in front of caulifl ower dealers. It's unnatural. Ui: What are you talking about? Nobody's natural these days. When I walk, I want people to know that I'm walking.
~ Bertolt Brecht
it doesn't matter what professors Or smart-alecks think; all that counts is how the little Man sees his master. Basta.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Hay muchas maneras de matar. Pueden meterte un cuchillo en el vientre. Quitarte el pan. No curarte de una enfermedad. Meterte en una mala vivienda. Empujarte hasta el suicidio. Torturarte hasta la muerte por medio del trabajo. Llevarte a la guerra... Solo algunas están prohibidas en nuestro Estado.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
~ Bertrand Russell
Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
~ Beth Ditto
I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.
~ Beth Ditto
I don't give a chicken's sorry ass who taught you. I just want to play.
~ beth hoffman
Writing, like drugs and recreational sex, becomes an activity associated with youth.
~ Betsy Lerner
Whatever police the world may prescribe to rule the soul, I refuse to obey them.
~ Bettina Brentano