Quotes About Rebellion

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.

I feel outside of the system where you're male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don't represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.