Quotes About Rebellion

I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists.

It's better, really, to go out in a blaze. That's why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire.

This, after all, is the king who passed the law about putting trousers on cats and dogs, who made too-loud laughter a punishable crime. According to rumor, he was abused by his father, the last king. But that's the story people always tell, isn't it, when they want to explain inexplicable behavior?

Many people feel most alive, most fulfilled, when they violate the dictates of conscience or even the promptings of their own self interest.

Da soll mich doch gleich ein gekochter Hummer kitzeln, grollte der Kapitän

He wore the same shorts and t-shirts to work for days on end. He refused to wear shoes with laces. He refused to wear watches or even his wedding ring. To calm himself at work he often blared heavy metal music.

is creating problems for bureaucrats who suffer from malignant obedience.

Or how his soldiers, even in combat, refused to wear their helmets, claiming that the weather was too hot for them and "if a bullet is going to kill me, it has my name on it anyway." (To which Amos said, "What about all those bullets addressed 'To Whom It May Concern'?")

They stopped testing me. And if you're not going to test me, I'm gonna smoke!

if i followed any of the rules, i wouldn't be where i am today

It was a world ruled these days by the gun, the guitar, and the needle, sexier than sex, where the good right hand had become the male's primary sexual organ...

We are full of anarchy. We take our clothes off because we shouldn't take our clothes off. And we behave worse in other countries.

minor anarchy was still in me.

Sporadic rebellion would be replaced by class-conscious revolution. Instead of burning down the manor, the workers would expropriate it and put it to use for the collective benefit of the common people, the ones who built it in the first place.

Marxism offers the kind of subversive truths that cause fear and trembling among the high and mighty, those who live atop a mountain of lies.

Someone told me you were worshipping the devil with the punk rocks! he said, opening the jug. Ma walked into the apartment, and Grandpa repeated that I'd joined the devil-worshippers. With the punk rocks, he added proudly, liked he'd copped on to a new phenomenon.

Whenever history and culture seem stifling, weeds begin to look good.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

By that sin fell the angels.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated, and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.