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Quotes About Rebellion

The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the premeditation of coups d'etat.
~ Victor Hugo
Há sempre na reflexão uma certa quantidade de rebelião íntima, que o irritava.
~ Victor Hugo
Let's fight, ye gods and little fishes! I've had enough of despotism.
~ Victor Hugo
Isabelle had always been impetuous, a force of nature, really, a girl who liked to break rules. Countless nuns and teachers had learned that she could be neither controlled nor contained.
~ Kristin Hannah
Her beauty had always made it easy for her to break rules without reprisal.
~ Kristin Hannah
Elsa heard the message but didn't care, and not caring felt good. Almost exhilarating, in fact. For once, she had not let someone else tell her where she belonged.
~ Kristin Hannah
Isabelle knew the volume. Les Fleurs du mal. The Flowers of Evil. It was the book they used to signal a meeting. "I am looking for something else by this author," Anouk said, exhaling smoke. "I am sorry, Madame. I have no more Baudelaire. Some Verlaine, perhaps? Or Rimbaud?
~ Kristin Hannah
how you used to sit cross-legged in your room, with your eyes closed, trying to levitate your toys when Lottie made you clean your room.
~ Kristin Hannah
If you aren't pretty, start trouble.
~ Kristopher Reisz
That's why Occupy was so cool at first," Waverly says, "because it was actually different from what'd been done before. But most protests seem like cover versions of old songs. Like we're all in a sixties tribute band.
~ Kurt Andersen
He tells me I'm "the ultimate poster child for my generation—you have everything you could possibly want, sky's the limit, then you decide you've got to burn down the joint, you do all this lunatic shit, then you suddenly change your mind and decide, 'Nah, America's not so bad after all—waiter, I'll have another chardonnay,' tuck in to this sweet life, and get away with it all scot-fucking-free.
~ Kurt Andersen
The Beats' self-conception descended from a particular American lineage—mountain men, outlaws, frontier cranks, lonely individualists, and narcissistic outsiders sounding their barbaric yawps over the rooftops of the world. The hippie dream that followed drew as well from a parallel lineage—Cane Ridge, the communes of the 1830s and '40s, Transcendentalism, pastoralism, Thoreau. Both were enactments of classic American fantasies.
~ Kurt Andersen
Teenage angst has paid off wellNow I'm bored and old.
~ Kurt Cobain
I'd rather be dead than cool.
~ Kurt Cobain
Rather be dead than cool.
~ Kurt Cobain
I feel compelled to say fuck you fuck you to those of you who have absolutely no regard for me as a person. You have raped me harder than you'll ever know. So again I say fuck you although this phrase has totally lost its meaning. FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU.
~ Kurt Cobain
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
~ Kurt Cobain
Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend
~ Kurt Cobain
Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs!
~ Kurt Cobain
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
~ Kurt Cobain
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.
~ Kurt Cobain
I won't eat anything green.
~ Kurt Cobain
Art is sacred. Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic.
~ Kurt Cobain
I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word 'fuck' has many connotations as does the word 'art'.
~ Kurt Cobain