Quotes About Rebellion

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

Down you mongrel, Death! Back into your kennel!

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.

Curfew must not ring tonight.

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

Anarchy is against the law.

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.