Quotes About Rebellion

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad—at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment.

He will be resisted by the older ones

didn't care what my parents (and grandfather) thought of me.

you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions.

Repeated punishment, while it crushes the hatred of a few, stirs the hatred of all … just as trees that have been trimmed throw out again countless branches." For revolutions feed on repression, growing heads faster and faster as one literally cuts a few off by killing demonstrators. There is an Irish revolutionary song that encapsulates the effect: The higher you build your barricades, the stronger we become.

Socrates was put to death because he disrupted something that, in the eyes of the Athenian establishment, was working just fine.

De niño había sido un poco endeble, y mi padre lo llevaba a caminar a la montaña para robustecerlo, como hacía, por otro lado, con todos nosotros. Mario acumuló un odio sordo por la montaña y, apenas pudo sustraerse al dominio de mi padre, dejó de ir totalmente.

No tienes autoridad!», le gritaba mi padre despertándola por la noche. Pero por otro lado, él también demostró no tenerla, porque Paola continuó paseando durante años con aquel joven bajito, y lo dejó cuando la cosa se apagó sola, poco a poco, como se apaga la luz de una vela.

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

Entrepreneurship is by its nature antiauthority. It is anti-status quo. It is always moving in the direction of making what exists obsolete. Early in this century the economist Joseph Schumpeter wrote of the work of the entrepreneur as that of "creative destruction.

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Or this:—that the whole universe, her own sex and yours, and Providence, or Destiny, to boot, make common cause against the woman who swerves one hair's breadth out of the beaten track.

It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.

The world's law was no law for her mind

They said, "You are a savage and dangerous woman." I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for 'freedom', be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he's fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.

Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun. ...He's the Akron AWOL?!

Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you. I understand.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

Why would anyone in their right mind want to be a teenager more than once? When

Hayden shouts, To the new Teen Uprising!

When your parents turn you in to the Juvenile Authority - and they will - I will not shed a single tear for you, Connor Lassiter.