Quotes About Rebellion

Hers was the generation that would launch the Revolution, but which for the moment was turning blue for want of air. The generation reaching consciousness in a society that lacked any. The generation that despite the consensus that declared change impossible hankered for change all the same.

I was seventeen and a half, smoking so much bud that if I remembered an hour from any one of those days it would have been a lot.

Muchacho del diablo!

Hers was the generation that would launch the Revolution, but which for the moment was turning blue for want of air.

Dale un galletazo

We are, in many ways, the bastard children of Reason and Mysticism. Both have been banging away like libertines during the last 200 years, and we are, in many ways, their offspring. Without Reason, we would simply be mad savants, dancing to an aimless tune. Without Mysticism, we would be poseurs, desperately trying to be rebellious without the wisdom to pull it off. Magick, you see, is the ultimate rebellion, and we are its best chance for the future.

We are neither the pawns of devils, nor the enemies of virtue. We are simply curious, pragmatic, and rebellious -- too curious to be timid, too defiant for morality, and too pragmatic to wreck shit "just because.

Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

Even overeating — like Mom — wasn't that a rebellion that in the end only hurt us?

But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

Somewhere in the wider world kids in their teens loitered in shop doorways late at night, smoked a pooled ten gaspers and crammed their mouths with pay-by-weight sweets. They engaged in friendly bouts of scuffling and sat on damp kerbs and felt estranged.

In Adam we will, even if it kills us, do all that we can to avoid what is patently and clearly made obvious to us by God himself.

If a man exists who is immune to force, even if he's the most blameless anchorite living on top of a column in the middle of the desert, he is beyond government, beyond authority, and cannot be controlled; and that would be intolerable.

When we live in rebellion, He can't bless us as He would like.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

What-you're Smoke Knights! Stop this at once!" "Oh, do shut up, Your Highness.

American independence dates from the throwing of tea-chests into Boston harbour.

Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality.

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

I'm gonna kick your miserable ass, God!

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.

Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority.