Quotes About Rebellion

break the rules pay the price

Not kill us, Pigeon corrected. She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

When a government becomes unjust, honor is often found among the lawless.

The boys sat in front of your house at dusk, the boys who still had parents. Sometimes they held Marlboros out the car Windows and even If they didn't, sparks fell from their hands.

A lot of that criticism stems from jealousy, don't you agree? People have a hard time accepting someone who soars so high. Someone who dares to break all the rules.

We are more than pawns, Kate. We are free to make our own choices. Kings and bishops shall not forever determine the fate of free men. (Frith) You're fleeing the wrath of a bishop, aren't you, and the king's soldiers? How can you be anything but a pawn in a dangerous game? (Kate) My choice, Kate. My choice not to play by the bishop's rules. A man whose spirit is free will never be a pawn in somebody else's game no matter what the consequences of his choice. (John) (p. 121)

Misfits need misfits to worship. It was white kids trying to avoid being white adults; all of them going through the detour of punk culture to expend and waste their youth, because they all knew they were gonna die someday, bald, fat and stupid.

And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

Who is this girl? Why is she alive? Wonder if I should leave right now. Get up and say, 'Goodnight fuck-ups, it's been a sheer sensation and I hope I never see any of you again,' and leave?

If all of your friends are morons is it a felony, a misdemeanor or an act of God if you blow their fucking heads off with a thirty-eight magnum?

and like in a movie I appear in front of the D'Agostino's, sale's clerks beckoning for me to enter, and I'm using an expired coupon for a box of oat-bran cereal and the girl at the checkout counter--black, dumb,slow-- doesn't get it, doesn't notice the expiration date has passed even though it's the only thing I buy, and I get a small but incendiary thrill when I walk out of the store, opening the box, stuffing handfuls of the cereal into my mouth, trying to whistle Hips to Be Square.

There are some guys sitting at tables who all look at this one gorgeous girl, longingly, hoping for at least one dance or a blow job in Daddy's car and there are all these girls, looking indifferent or bored, smoking clove cigarettes, all of them or at least most of them staring at one blond-haired boy standing in the back with sunglasses on. Julian

She's been drinking champagne kirs but has already had too many and when she orders her sixth I suggest that maybe she's had enough. She looks at me and says, I am cold and thirsty and I will order what I fucking want. I say, Then have an Evian or San Pellegrino for Christ sakes.

Romeo Void blared out of the sunroof.

It's a world where getting stoned is the only option.

The greatest crime being perpetrated in this new world is that of stamping out passion and silencing the individual.

God unleashes history in the beginning. God helps the baby to stand in the beginning. But God is also out ahead, calling history homeward across the field or across the room. God doesn't force it. Sometimes history responds, or some parts of history respond, but others resist or rebel. But God keeps calling.

Roman throats like the Zealots. Instead, if a Roman soldier backhands you with a blow

I will take their ridiculous peace and shove it down their cold metal throats.

Rules are for old men who prefer to walk in the wheel ruts of history

A center for the coordination of rebellion can be mobile; it does not need to be a permanent place where people meet.

You may have enslaved our bodies, but our hearts and minds will always be free!