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Quotes About Rebellion

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
~ Max Eastman
No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.
~ Ivan Illich
There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.
~ John Mellencamp
You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.
~ Ken Kesey
This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
~ Eddie Vedder
Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.
~ Edward Abbey
Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
~ Albert Camus
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
~ Andre Gide
Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
~ Arthur Helps
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
~ Bernard Crick
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.
~ Billy Joel
Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
~ Billy Joel
…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.
~ Charles Bukowski
The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.
~ Charles Darwin
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
~ Charles Dickens
I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
~ Chris Lilley
When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
~ Chrissie Hynde
I was born the son of a lawless man, always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand.
~ Christopher Cross
Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention
~ Colleen McCullough
Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.
~ Dov Davidoff
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.
~ Earl Felton