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Quotes About Rebellion

We are not going to be herded anywhere we do not like," [Temeraire] said, dangerously, "by Napoleon or by your admirals; and if you like to ask the other dragons of the Corps to try it, I expect they will see at once how very foolish it is, and if not, I will explain it to them, and I daresay they will join us instead.
~ Naomi Novik
I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.
~ Naomi Novik
I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you
~ Naomi Novik
he tried sitting next to me once and once only; I stared straight at him with all the murder in my heart and he stopped and took his hand out
~ Naomi Novik
How did you," he said, pushing himself up on an elbow, indignation finally dawning, and I pushed him back down and kissed him.
~ Naomi Novik
But for my part, I did feel very much like i'd just been put against the wall by the most dragonish dinner lady at primary school.
~ Naomi Novik
Here I had no idea what I was even meant to do, and if I didn't like it, still, I wanted to neglect my duties deliberately, and not just because I was a stupid girl who didn't know what they were.
~ Naomi Novik
De school. De hele school. Wij gaan weg en we vullen de hele school met mals.' Ik staarde haar aan. 'En dan? Schoppen we het hele zwikkie de leegte in of zo?' 'Ja!' zei Liu.
~ Naomi Novik
Please describe how you became a writer. Possibly I began writing as a refuge from our insulting first grade textbook. Come, Jane, come. Look, Dick, look. Were there ever duller people in the world? You had to tell them to look at things? Whey weren't they looking to begin with?
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters.
~ Naomi Wolf
Todos os sistemas de trabalho que dependem da coação de uma mão de obra, forçando-a a aceitar condições más e remuneração injusta, reconheceram a eficácia de manter essa mão de obra exausta para impedir que ela se rebele.
~ Naomi Wolf
Let us go out in the fog, John, let us roll up our raincoat collars and go on the streets where men are sneering at the kings.
~ Carl Sandburg
whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather … and burn churches, ravage and rob provision stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons
~ Carl Sandburg
Donde no hay propiedad privada ni siquiera es posible la rebelión contra la tiranía
~ Carlos Alberto Montaner
that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place.
~ Carlos Castaneda
I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Me incliné sobre ella y recorrí la piel de su vientre con la yema del dedo. Bea dejó caer los párpados, los ojos y me sonrió, segura y fuerte. -Hazme lo que quieras... -susurró. Tenía diecisiete años y la vida en los labios.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Y usted qué es, Óscar? de derechas o de izquierdas? - Óscar es ácrata, papá - cortó Marina El pedazo de pan se me atragantó. No sabía lo que significaba aquella palabra, pero sonaba a anarquista en bicicleta.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Go to hell, I whispered. The night darker than ever, leaned in against the window panes.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ich habe mir immer gedacht, wer sich einer Herde angehörig zugehörig fühlt, hat etwas von einem Hammel.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mire, yo en estos casos, y créame que tengo práctica, lo que siempre hago es rellenar la documentación con nombres sacados de la sobras del insigne Ramón María del Valle Inclán, porque está demostrado que tan fina pluma tiene poca incidencia en la lista de lecturas recomendadas por la Jefatura Superior de Policia y de esta guisa nadie se entera del cambiazo.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Do you want to set fire to the whole world and burn with it? Let's do it together. You fix the price.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Rap. Songs of rage and hate blended with screaming instruments.
~ Caroline B. Cooney