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Quotes About Rebellion

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
~ A. Whitney Brown
I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.
~ Charles Bukowski
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
~ Yoko Ono
Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
~ Ben Horowitz
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
~ Allen Tate
I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.
~ Amanda Peet
When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.
~ Gene Luen Yang
All In' is not my baby, it's my brother or my cousin. We sold out a 10,000 seat arena in less than 30 minutes, and that, to me, says a lot about the health of wrestling outside of the machine.
~ Adam Page
The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
~ Rachel Kushner
I couldn't wait to get out, and at 14, I moved into a three-room Georgetown town house with Dad. I never went back. When they eventually sold the house, in 1984, Mom had a goodbye party for 'Merrywood.' I refused to go.
~ John Dickerson
When Ronald Reagan's administration was exposed for having illegally sold arms to Iran to raise money covertly for the Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, Reagan acknowledged that the evidence was damning - yet defended the principle behind the scheme.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
~ Benicio Del Toro
I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.
~ Mary Gauthier
Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.
~ Ambrose Burnside
I'm not a big punk fan, but I love a good, solid screamer.
~ John Grant
I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.
~ Tracy Lawrence
If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.
~ Eric Carmen
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
~ Patti Smith
Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.
~ Alex Cox
I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Rules are made to be broken." - Jared
~ Martha Sweeney, Breathe In
LOGAN: You see, Blake, the thing is, I don't give a sh*t what other people think.
~ Sam Crescent, Ugly
LOGAN: ...Izzy could do whatever the hell she wanted. All she needed to do was not give a sh*t about fitting in.
~ Sam Crescent, Ugly
Tsk, Tsk, Sunshine. I believe I have a wanton wench on my hands. Unfortunately for you, I'm in control here, not you.
~ Lainie Suzanne, Soleil