Quotes About Rebellion

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off."

...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Once she'd realized she'd never meet her mother's expectations, it didn't seem real important to meet anyone else's.

Once a mind has been set free, it would rather be destroyed than return to captivity.

The central point is rebellion against the renunciation of the desire to know. A declaration of faith in the comprehensibility of the world, a proud retaliation to those who remain satisfied with their own ignorance, who call "infinite" that which we don't understand and delegate knowledge elsewhere.

The career of a mathematician begins when he realizes that a subject he is studying is not presented in the right way: it starts with an act of rebellion…").

When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.

Tardamos bastante más de lo que calculan los maestros en entender la escritura como búsqueda personal de expresión. El primer aliciente para expresarse por escrito de una manera espontánea surge, precisamente, como rebeldía frente a su mandato. La ruptura con los maestros es condición necesaria para que germine la voluntad real de escribir.

Yo pensaba que también podía ser heroico escaparse por gusto, sin más, por amor a la libertad y a la alegría—no a la alegría impuesta oficial y mesurada, sino a la carcajada y a la canción que brotan de una fuente cuyas aguas nadie canaliza.

This legislative ennui about musket-and rifle-toting insurgents also ignored that, from Shays's Rebellion to the Whiskey Rebellion, white men were the ones who had taken up arms against the United States of America. And in a pattern that would repeat itself well into the twenty-first century, there were little to no consequences for that.

When I was done, and bloody to the wrist, I squatted down among the murdered music of the bells and pissed.

Independent freedom loving old hippies and independent freedom loving young eagles.. two of a kind.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

We all do as we're told but some days it doesn't seem to matter.

How dare he lie to her! And how dare he establish a bordello of all things! Why, their parents would roll over in their graves if they knew. Dead God! They probably knew and already had!

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

Hubris, thy name is Mallory -- she believed she could get away with mouthing off to the chief of D's in front of witnesses. She could not. Coffey could tell that much by the change in the atmosphere -- the dead silence of a room with too many guns in it.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

The Death Star and its Sanctuary Moon hang distant in space as the Rebel fleet comes out of hyperspace with an awesome roar.

They all fell onto the sand, then huddled up beneath the long wings of the hang glider. "Think we could borrow this thing for a little while?" Christina asked. "Think we could all go to jail with your Papa for stealing airplanes?" Alex retorted.

Did you kill me yet?" "Eat your fucking ice cream.

You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards? . . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?

As we age, many of us who are privileged . . . those with some assured place and pattern in their lives, with some financial security---are in danger of choosing to stay right where we are, to undertake each day's routine, and to listen to our arteries hardening. . . . Instead, we should make use of our security, our seniority, to take risks, to make noise, to be courageous, to become unpopular.

Your father and I will deal with him." "What are you going to do?" I say. "We will talk to him." I snort. "Yeah, that's going to work.