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Quotes About Rebellion

Men must go out of their minds.
~ Harry Hooton
Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
~ Henry Rollins
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.
~ Herbert Marcuse
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
~ Herman Melville
The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
~ Honore de Balzac
I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don't want to be a man.
~ James M. Barrie
I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
~ John Green
I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.
~ John Lennon
You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.
~ David Lee
I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
~ Carol Leifer
Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.
~ Stephen King
The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.
~ Lars Ulrich
I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll never meet their grandmother.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.
~ Pink
Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.
~ Bill Watterson
My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.
~ Kris Carr
My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her.
~ Miley Cyrus
My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'
~ Zack Snyder
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
~ Pink
Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?
~ Bill Watterson
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
~ Wayne Brady
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.
~ Banksy
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
~ George Bernard Shaw