Quotes About Rebellion

I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came.

Those who will not dance will have to be shot

If you're not mad at the world, you don't have what it takes

civilization able to produce a Mahavira, a Mirabai, a Malik Ambar, a Periyar, a Muhammad Iqbal and a Mohandas Gandhi is a place open to radical experiments with self-definition. It

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Mr. Kingsley was not just gay but an iconoclast, the first such they'd ever encountered. This was what they longed to be themselves, little though they could put into words. They were all children who had previously failed to fit in, or had failed, to the point of acute misery, to feel satisfied, and they had seized on creative impulse in the hope of salvation.

In high school, Karen and Sarah had done everything to their hair they could think of except take care of it. They had bleached it, shaved it, permed it, dyed it, as girls do when vandalizing themselves seems the best way of proving their bodies were theirs.

I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

I've used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world.

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

Rap is supposed to scare soccer moms.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.

When I grew up, in the time of 'Look Back in Anger,' the theatre was very exciting, a place where you felt that social comment could lead to social change.

It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken, the governments aren't protecting us and it's down to us now.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

I do feel there is a very rabid young base for 'Black Mirror' that will very much identify with the daughter character because of the invasiveness they feel with their parents trying to control their moves on social media.

I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.