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Quotes About Rebellion

The dirty little secret of the intelligence-gathering job is that information doesn't just want to be free—it wants to hang out on street corners wearing gang colors and terrorizing the neighbors.
~ Charles Stross
As far as my fellow students go, I'm one of the two dangerous rebels who turned up in office casual; the rest are so desperately sober that if you could bottle them you could put the Betty Ford Clinic out of business.
~ Charles Stross
before the hardcore idiots began cooking up bombs and declaring war on the System, a System that had ultimately gotten tired of their posturing and rolled over in its sleep, obliterating them.
~ Charles Stross
We've been brought up to think of the Victorians as prudes, horrified by a glimpse of table leg, but that myth was constructed in the 1920s out of whole cloth, to give their rebellious children an excuse to point and say, We invented sex! The reality is stranger: the Victorians were licentious in the extreme behind closed doors, only denying everything in public in the pursuit of probity.
~ Charles Stross
But the de-emphasized had the temerity to try to look after themselves in ways that resisted monetization. Their
~ Charles Stross
CHAPTER 15: RAIN OF STEEL CHAPTER 16: SCHWERPUNKT PART 4: BLOOD OATHS CHAPTER 17: STATE OF SIEGE CHAPTER 18: SCORPION STARE CHAPTER 19: ASYLUM Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. —John Harington (16th century)
~ Charles Stross
For the record, I would like to state that never in the history of humankind has a woman been told to calm down and then calmed down. We don't like that
~ Chelsea Handler
For the record, I would like to state that never in the history of humankind has a woman been told to calm down and then calmed down. We don't like that.
~ Chelsea Handler
If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.
~ Chelsea Handler
Okonkwo was ruled by one passion -- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.
~ Chinua Achebe
Becoming a flight attendant was at once rebellion and escape
~ Chris Bohjalian
when human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied.
~ Chris Hedges
Those who resist refuse to kneel before the idols of mass culture and the power elites. They are not trying to get rich. They do not want to be part of the inner circle of the powerful. They accept that when you stand with the oppressed you are treated like the oppressed.
~ Chris Hedges
Vigilante groups in America do not trade violence for violence. They are mostly white men who often prey on people of color and radicals. They are capitalism's ideological vanguard, its shock troops used to break populist movements and tyrannize the oppressed. And they will be unleashed against any mass movement that seriously threatens the structures of capitalist power and calls for rebellion.
~ Chris Hedges
Paine posited that the self-professed virtuous people would smash the windows of the actual Christian God if God ever lived on earth.42
~ Chris Hedges
Moral cowardice like Starbuck's turns us into hostages. Mutiny is the only salvation for the Pequod's crew. And mutiny is our only salvation.
~ Chris Hedges
And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.
~ Reba McEntire
I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
~ Lee Daniels
I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.
~ Michael Shannon
It's miserable wearing black all the time, unless you're Johnny Cash.
~ John Cooper Clarke
I've always identified with the misfits.
~ Stephan Jenkins
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
~ Nicolas Roeg
If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it.
~ Johnny Van Zant