Quotes About Rebellion

Punk' is nothing but death and crime...and the rage of a beast.

I am my own damned princess!

I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?

All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

The public be damned.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.

The way of transgressors is hard.

Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.