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Quotes About Rebellion

Karos Invictad took pleasure in cruelty, making him both pathetic and dangerous. If he were permitted to continue, there was the very real risk that the Letherii people would rise up in true rebellion, and the gutters in every city of the empire would run crimson.
~ Steven Erikson
If I am a clerk, then one prophecy will prove true.' 'Oh, and which one would that be?' Cotillion asked, seemingly amused that Karsa was capable of speech. 'The tyranny of the number counters will be a bloody one.
~ Steven Erikson
The most deadly seducers are the ones incouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward... not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.
~ Steven Erikson
And now here I sit, on my brow a circlet of fire, and this kingdom I rule is naught but the host of my life's recollections, unruly subjects, so eager for insurrection, to usurp the aged man from his charred throne and raise up younger versions one by one.
~ Steven Erikson
Wealth was measured in control over other people, and the grip of that control could never be permitted to loosen. Odd, then, that this rebellion had had nothing to do with such inequities, that in truth it had been little more than a struggle between those who would be in charge.
~ Steven Erikson
Worm says fuck you, Assail!
~ Steven Erikson
Corruption and incompetence. These were rebellion's sparks.
~ Steven Erikson
No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.
~ Steven Erikson
Your days are numbered, you little ignorant peckerwoods." Monty Schaffer stood with feet spread, fists tightly balled on his hips—an angry man ready to strike. But instead of striking, he unholstered
~ Steven F. Havill
Stay away from the government.
~ Steven Gould
the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.
~ Steven Heighton
I'd go off alone, because you can't trust those who want to break the rules and you certainly can't trust those who make the rules so you do the only thing possible, you avoid the rules.
~ Steven Herrick
Prometheus did as he was bidden, and this is the reason why some people have the forms of men but the souls of beasts. The forms of men but the souls of beasts.
~ Steven James
Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
~ Steven Morrissey
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
~ Steven Patrick Morrissey
I hated the royal wedding.
~ Steven Patrick Morrissey
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
~ Steven Patrick Morrissey
Art was disgusting. It led to thought, and thought led to dissatisfaction, which in turn led to rebellion.
~ Steven Savile
Hill-Billie was threatening for being free from hierarchy and unassimilated into Atlantic capitalism.
~ Steven Stoll
Learn the rules before you break them.
~ Steven Taylor Goldsberry
Don't be a lady, be a legend.
~ Stevie Nicks
Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
~ Stewart Brand
Quanto vale aquela vontade de revolta que se recusa a funcionar quando a fome está saciada?
~ Stig Dagerman
Don't be like my father Akhenaten
~ Stone