Quotes About Rebellion

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

i do not give a sh*t, the toilet miss me now

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.

My favorite part of going to a wedding is ruining the wedding.

Don't say a woman is crazy just because she runs away from her wedding.

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

Only dead fish follow the stream.

Im my native country I successfully avoided seeing the Grand Canyon; I avoided the Painted Desert, my nurse did not manage to drag me to Niagara. With all respect to Alexander von Humboldt, I will not get myself off this contraption to look at a tree however interesting.

One doesn't become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It's to escape all that - to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to by others.

One doesn't become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It's to escape all that – to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to you by others, charitable refuse of their thoughts, so many ounces of stale bread of life a day.