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Quotes About Rebellion

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
~ Grace Jones
To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
~ Marilyn Manson
Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.
~ Paul Newman
Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
~ Nikki Sixx
There was a line call that didn't look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row.
~ John McEnroe
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
~ Phil Ochs
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?
~ Henry Rollins
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
~ Huey Newton
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
~ Edward Abbey
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
~ Jules Verne
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
~ Tom Lehrer
Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.
~ Bruce Catton
I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
~ William Blake
A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
~ John Lennon
If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.
~ Steve Coogan
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
And if we burn, you burn with us.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.
~ Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor
~ Pierce Brown, Morning Star
Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.
~ kevin mcpherson eckhoff
Takin' it to ISIS, man!" Blue Jacket thumped his chest twice, and I read the saying on his shirt: Turning ISIS into WASWAS.
~ Jennifer Lane, Spiked