Quotes About Rebellion

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

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I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.

The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.

I am not good at following rules, I am not good at following instructions, I am not good at driving slow.

I was never good at taking instructions.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

All the way back to Dartmouth, I was part of the insurgency.

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

I intend to be a candidate for those who want to vote against everyone.

When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me.

For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father's house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could.

If men become tyrants, they shape for themselves the doom of tyrants, who are always betrayed.

She could get published in a sound journal that meant business and didn't publish fly-by-nights. She was twenty-eight. It was time for her to O.D., not get published.

he hit Sunrise Honey right across the face. She swerved the car into the bushes, jumped out, opened his door, yanked him upright, and then kicked in three of his ribs.

My mother once said that sex was only good if it was dirty and verboten and I've never found anything to disprove this.

Saying the word I was not supposed to say is the thing that gave me a voice in the world.

Shocking many, Puritans wore hats in church (following Jewish practice), refused to bow or kneel during worship (which they saw as a violation of the third commandment), and allowed pigs and chickens in the church, and some of them didn't even know the Lord's Prayer.