Quotes About Rebellion

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

It's nice to stand out and not have to conform to all the beauty standards that just don't even make sense anymore.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That's what's really cute to me.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.