Quotes About Rebellion

I'd rather somebody picked up a crowbar and battered out my brains - than go back mornings! I go! Every time you come in yelling that Goddamn Rise and Shine! Rise and Shine! I say to myself, How lucky dead people are!

We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." -

We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.

Darken Rahl shook his fists to the sky. "No!

He encouraged me to take one more deep puff and hold it in, so I did, and the smoke traveled down on top of my esophagus and then did a U-turn up into where my brain was supposed to be. At first it felt like fireworks, and then I began to feel like I was floating down a stream. I liked it. And I took another puff and studied my ass off. The next morning, however, I would fail my very first Spanish exam, because I would not remember how to conjugate anything except Abraham.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things said Rob Anybody, that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

She folded her arms and then shouted, Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats! Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin' o' the arms, the foooldin' o' the aaaarmss! cried Daft Wullie, dropping to the ground and trying to cover himself with leaves. Around him Feegles started to wail and cower and Big Yan began to bang his head on the rear wall of the dairy.

We can't just drop everything, sir! Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?

He said to people: you're free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him a tyrant and, as soon as he'd been betrayed, they milled around a bit like barn-bred chickens who've seen the big world outside for the first time, and then they went back into the warm and shut the door...

The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.

She'd read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren't supposed to.

The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the mud to stop them growing.

Shut up sergeant. You're a free troll. That's an order Sam Vimes

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way, Drumknott. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

One day it's the ringing of the bells and the casting down of the evil tyrant, and the next it's everyone sitting around complaining that ever since the tyrant was overthrown no one's been taking out the trash.

If anyone locked me in a dungeon, there'd be screams.