Quotes About Rebellion

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn't plan to ask for either one.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!

Nights are rebellious, they only demand the truth

I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them.

Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

Oh Alfred! Alfred!' she cried. 'I am a woman, aren't I?' The hands were shaking with excitement as they gripped one another. 'I'll show them I am!' she screamed, her voice losing all control. And then, calming herself with a visible effort, she turned to her brother and, smiling at him with a coyness that was worse than any scream – 'I'll send their cards to them tomorrow, Alfred,' she whispered.

Swallow future Spit out hope Burn your face Upon the chrome

You didn't have to have choruses, you didn't have to have lead guitar solos, you didn't have to have anything," said Watt. The lyrics were basically rants by both Watt and Boon that they dubbed "spiels." "We just say what we say

punk rock could be anything anyone wanted it to be.

In "The Ballad of Johnny Burma," Miller hollers, "I said my mother's dead, well I don't care about it / I say my father's dead, I don't care about it." At the time both his parents were very much alive. "It was more like cutting loose from all that stuff—they're all dead and now I'm free to be me," Miller says.

Like Dick, Sonic Youth found beauty and genuineness in the messed-up and broken

KNOW THE SECRET: ROCK 'N' ROLL IS A TEENAGE SPORT, MEANT TO BE PLAYED BY TEENAGERS OF ALL AGES—THEY COULD BE 15, 25 OR 35. IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO WHETHER THEY'VE GOT THE LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS, THAT BEAUTIFUL TEENAGE SPIRIT…

punk placed no premium on technique or production values.

punk rock as an alternative," he says, "a real attempt to change the social order of the world.

I mean, rock music's got to be something that your mom would hate—if you want it to be really satisfying. We made music that moms would really hate