Quotes About Rebellion

I would steal a lot of saris from my nani's cupboard.

I wasn't stealing cars at like, six. But I've always been bad.

Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.

I loved the idea of how all these guys always are stealing other guys' girls and I was like, 'There's no female anthem for a girl stealing another guy's girl,' and that is the coolest thing ever.

My friends were stealing cars and shoplifting. I was never into that but I was cheeky. I enjoyed making people laugh.

I grew up on Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Public Image Ltd., Sex Pistols, The Jam and somewhere in the middle was The Specials.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.

As Orwell once wrote, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"—most especially, for him, facts that they did not want to acknowledge.

Collecting the facts is a revolutionary act. Insisting on the right to do so is perhaps the most subversive action possible

How long shall thy Madness outbrave our justice?

We have had a close shave, I can tell you. If the French had landed in force, if the peasants throughout the country had rallied to them. The Irish must be taught a lesson. London will expect that. We are schoolmasters as well, you see. Scullery maids and hangmen and schoolmasters. The lessons taught by armies are hard ones.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

The swaggering personal habits of the bitter self-made men only confirmed my adolescent understanding of the social order. Riding a BMW motorcycle without a helmet, taking no shit from the police, drinking Wild Turkey at all hours of the day, carrying a .45 automatic tucked into their waistband—if that wasn't working class, what was?

raise less corn and more hell.

Here, after all, is a rebellion against "the establishment" that has wound up cutting the tax on inherited estates. Here is a movement whose response to the power structure is to make the rich even richer; whose answer to the inexorable degradation of working-class life is to lash out angrily at labor unions and liberal workplace-safety programs; whose solution to the rise of ignorance in America is to pull the rug out from under public education.

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?… The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.