Quotes About Rebellion

A woman who has nothing left to lose can prove dangerous.

She understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.

Insult me all you care, Mr. Russell. But the law applies even to those who disdain it.

Dreams then were to be expressed in building railroads and factories, in boring gas wells, stringing telegraph poles. There was room for no other dream and since father could not do any of these things he was an outlaw in his community. The community tolerated him. His own sons tolerated him.

You, there, girl! Halt!" Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to?

Video games are bad for? That's what they said about rock'n'roll.

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

Einen braucht es, der Parolen ruft, und mit Glück werden ihm andere folgen. Wenn nicht, dann steht man nicht als Anführer einer Revolution auf der Straße, sondern als Geisteskranker. Es ist immer die Angst, der einzige zu sein und nicht zur Gruppe zu gehören, was den Menschen von bleibenden Taten abhält, und wenn es ihm irgendwann egal wird, was die Gruppe von ihm hält, dann wird er zum Amokläufer.

Ich bin kein Kind, ich bin nicht niedlich; warum soll man so jemanden streicheln?

Jemmy dipped the quill in beet juice and continued scribbling. "I'll tell him you've got reserved seats in Hell." "Aye! That's the ticket!

Look, I know Phillip since he was five years old -- and even then you'd have thought he was six foot four and bulletproof, he was that mouthy. And bad? My Jesus Christ.

While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

You know how it is, boss; you're out on the town with a few friends, drinking it up; you're young, you've got incendiaries... shit happens.

I'm exempt from anything I damned will feel like on the grounds that I'll kick anyone's ass who says otherwise.

The truth might set you free, but there's nothing that says you have to be grateful.

lot of them were wearing T-shirts under their lab coats, bearing the legend I Blow Things Up, Therefore I Am, Even If Someone Else Suddenly Isn't.

Would you really have...?" said Julien. "Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures." "But you are one!" "I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.

Oh come on!" I said. "If Walker couldn't control me with his Voice, did you really think you stood any chance? I've been around. I've stepped on worse things than you! I've faced angels, from Above and Below! I don't bow down to anyone! I'm John Taylor!

The gargoyles were always the first to make it clear when you were out of favour with the paper, and some of them had uncanny aim and absolutely no inhibitions when it came to bodily functions.

Too many people live the lives other people think they ought to, following orders they don't agree with, for causes they don't believe in. They live lives that don't matter, that touch no one and change nothing. For better or worse, you and I stared evil in the eye and didn't flinch. We raised our swords and went to war, and even if we didn't win we kicked some ass along the way. We made a difference, and that's all any man can ask.

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He asked, 'How can you make a revolution without firing-squads?

Exasperated, Antonov-Ovseenko called the Petrograd Fire Brigade. 'We tried flooding the cellars with water - but the firemen ... got drunk instead.' The Commissars started smashing the bottles in Palace Square, but 'the crowd drank from the gutters. The drunken ecstasy infected the entire city.