Quotes About Rebellion

Nothing should be perfect. I think that's the most important thing. I do wear my jackets almost exaggeratedly short. So that's probably the most mussed up. Along with, you know, not ironing my shirt.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

I'm still down with Jesus. I like to think of him mostly as a social revolutionary who mixed with bad crowds and hated the rich.

I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Kids don't want to dye their whole head another color; that's what their mothers do.

As I got older, I was able to articulate why I was rebelling against authority - because their motives were much more forceful and hurtful than I had ever thought.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

My father was stationed in Italy in the military. I had no one to feed me what was cool, so I was into Guns N' Roses and New Kids on the Block and MC Hammer and a lot of '80s hair bands. But I was never into Motley Crue, they never stuck with me.

I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang.

The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.

A motorcycle is an independent thing.

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

When I was 16, everyone else got a car; I got a motorcycle.

To hell with them all. Don't let them worry you. Get all that you can. Don't give a damn for anything. Nothing gives a damn for you. To hell with it all! To hell with it! There are a lot of bad days. There are a lot of good ones. You'll forget. There are a lot of days.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.

I don't know why You want to impress Christgau Ah, let that shit die And find out the new goal Kill yr idols!

I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.

But there is more – to rebel against what will not let life be.

La follia è, in un senso quasi spaventoso, la massima libertà possibile perchè ti libera dagli obblighi nei confronti della società.

I know that a lot of Christian kids rebel. But as I said earlier, I'm convinced that most of them don't really want to. They just haven't been given a better alternative. The only true antidote for a life of rebellion is a life worth living.

Our children's rebellion is not the problem. It is the symptom. Why they are rebelling is the problem. And unless we address the why, the external things we do in reaction to their rebellion will not make much of a difference.

Some of your children's rebellion against your spiritual lifestyle might be a necessary step in their finding an authentic relationship with God. But beware: If they find it, it might look quite different from what you've always thought it should be.

Calling a child rebellious has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school stupid. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.