Quotes About Rebellion

Carry on, please. Women don't usually take a skillet to his head and I'm anxious to witness it,

Pirate thoughts.

Men were surprised by her unconventional ways all the time. They

Sheriff, I'm wanted everywhere—but not by the law.

I shot the sheriff?

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

Rebellion sounded like a lot of fun, but in Calcutta there was nothing to rebel against. Where would it get you?

I was seven years old and my father was trying to get me to shut up and go to bed. He was trying to find something on the radio to put me to sleep and accidentally came across a rock station -- I think it was KIMN in Denver. Suddenly, I was like, 'No! No! Leave it there! I like this!' After that, there was no stopping me.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted — stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.

What right does it have, death? When I meet it, I'll give it the finger. Best I can do.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes.

Freebird, the mantra of the moron.

I want my rockstars dead.

Don't whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can't you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion - in both inner and outer worlds.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages.