Quotes About Rebellion

I got caught doing graffiti with my friend in broad daylight once.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

A lot of people in my generation have dared to ask questions like, 'Who is James Dean?' And I can't imagine asking a question like that, just because it's been ingrained in me since I was so young.

The generation who will watch 'Not Safe For Work', my generation, don't care who plays a part.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

I drive an old Camaro that I got when I was 16. And I've been known to do stupid things with my time, like Friendster.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

I was 15 when I first read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my bedroom, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I could find on how not to become my mother.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

There's a little bit of Sid and Nancy to the Joker and Harley look, which I always felt would not be a bad look if they were in a live-action movie.

One thing I think about a lot is that one of my favorite pieces of narrative art as a child was 'Calvin and Hobbes.' I really saw myself in the character of Calvin. I was rambunctious, I didn't always follow the rules, I had a wild imagination.

I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

Curly hair is not just a hairstyle: it's kind of a lifestyle. There is something really free and careless about it and loose and kind of naughty. I love it.

Maybe it's true. Maybe we were wrong in choosing to cultivate life instead of worshipping death. But we made the choice without listening to those on the outside. Without listening to those who always demand and insist on a fight to the death, as long as others will be the ones to do the dying. We made the choice while looking and listening inward, as the collective Votán that we are. We chose rebellion, that is to say, life.18

Acts of rebellion which promote moral and political change must be nonviolent. And one of the most potent nonviolent alternatives in the country, which defies the corporate state and calls for an end to imperial wars, is the secessionist movement bubbling up in some two dozen states including Vermont, Texas, Alaska and Hawaii.