Quotes About Rebellion

If every parent unwound a kid due to disrespect, the human race would go extinct in a single generation

It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865.

If you say, 'May the Fork be with you,' I'll smash you with the other half of this hanger.

I've had enough of organizations for a while, no matter how good the cause. I prefer being a free-agent rabble-rouser. Dan

They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. —Albert Camus

I began to recognize something in humanity that was ephemeral and hard to quantify, but definitely there. Simply put, humanity had a need to be bad. Not everyone, of course—but I calculated that 3 percent of the population could only find meaning in life through defiance. Even if there was no injustice in the world left to defy, they had an innate need to defy something. Anything.

Sie ist ein Kind der Sixties, blind der Masse zu folgen war nie ihre Sache. Stattdessen versucht sie, sich die nonkonformen Fragen der Welt zu stellen, weil konforme Fragen nur zu konformen Antworten führen.

Con la Guadaña es mejor pedir perdón que pedir permiso.

Breakfast was breakfast. How dare it be?

Have you decided what color you'll be? And what jewels you'll have on your robe? a girl asked... Invisible, Rowan said. I'll come up the statehouse steps naked. Those'll be some jewels, quipped one of the junior scythes, and everyone laughed.

For Connor it's not about stupidity, or even rebellion—it's about feeling life. Sitting on this ledge, hidden behind an exit sign is where he feels most comfortable. Sure, one false step and he's roadkill. Yet for Connor, life on the edge is home.

Of course, the bad scythes weren't all in the past. But instead of bad they were now called innovative and forward-thinking. Like the innovative bloodbaths of Scythe Goddard and his killer cronies.

How can you walk away," Connor finally says, "when they're about to overthrow the Cap-17 law?

No one rages against the system anymore. At most, they just glare at it a bit.

Simply put, unsavories have a need to despise the system. To facilitate that, I had to create a system worthy of loathing. In reality, there is no actual need for people to take a number, or to wait for long periods of time. There isn't even a need for an intake agent. It's all designed to make unsavories feel as if the system is wasting their time. The illusion of inefficiency serves the specific purpose of creating annoyance around which unsavories can bond. - The Thunderhead

The whole place is a petri dish of angst, generated by kids whose parents gave up on them, which is the worst kind of angst there is. There are fights and ridiculous posturing on a daily basis.

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!

Charles Baudelaire

Habría que añadir dos derechos a la lista de derechos del hombre: El derecho al desorden y el derecho a marcharse.

Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk - on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.

And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what is news around the world.

É a hora de vos embriagardes! Para não serdes escravos martirizados do tempo, embriagai-vos! Embriagai-vos sem cessar! Com vinho, poesia, virtude! Como quiserdes!

Es ist etwas Berauschendes am schlechten Geschmack, nämlich das aristokratische Vergnügen, zu mißfallen.