Quotes About Rebellion

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

I never dress for the occasion correctly because I hate fashion rules. They're so boring.

When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for special occasions.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

rip the prisons open put the convicts on television

I'm not saying its right to break the law. I'm not talkin about that—but these prisons as they exist are wrong.

We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs. ???? ?????, ????? ??????????? ???????? ???????? ???????????, ????? ???????????. (O. Henry, The Green Door)

The gray ghost that sometimes peeps through the rings of smoke is that of slain old King Convention. Freedom is the tyrant that holds them in slavery.

better to be stoned in the plaza than to turn the mill that squeezes out the juice of life, that turns eternity into empty hours, minutes into prisons, and time into copper coins and abstract shit

El amor es escándalo, desorden, transgresión: el de dos astros que rompen la fatalidad de sus órbitas y se encuentran en la mitad del espacio.

Prefiro procurar briga, provocar, prefiro correr o risco de ser detestado. Prefiro servir minha sopa bem salgada.

Niemand kann immer nur funktionieren. Wenn man sich selbst nich die nötige Zeit und Fürsorge gönnt, dann rebelliert der Körper in Form von Krankheit und Erschöpfung.

In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office.

But in my rebellious way I think that people have to be able to start over, just as I believed that a little girl has to be able to stay an innocent child her whole life long if she wants to

If the lycée teachers studying this book in their class are now beginning to get nervous, they can advise the students to skip this page.

I was reminded of a horrifying aphorism my father had taught me, expressing the ambivalence of officials toward gifted artists and writers who criticize their regimes: "Poets must first be hanged, then mourned at the gallows.

Hanya penyair termurni yang membiarkan cinta memasuki hatinya dalam masa revolusi.

În astfel de împrejur?ri, adic? imediat ce mintea noastr? neîndur?toare pricepe dureroasa realitate pe care inima refuz? cu înverÅŸunare s-o recunoasc?, întregul nostru trup se revolt? împotriva ei.

Mevlut beÅŸ dakika ayn? köÅŸede durursa kald?r?m? iÅŸgal etti diye arabas?n? al?p parçalayan belediye memurlar?, büyük ÅŸirketlerin kald?r?mlarda yürümeyi zorlaÅŸt?ran buzdolaplar?na hiç ses etmiyordu.

I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly—I'll beat you unfairly first.

This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery.

Rock and roll is music, said Vanya. Prokofiev is music, Stravinski is music, Tchaikovski and Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov and even Rachmaninov, THEY are music. Rock and roll is smart boys with no respect, YOU are rock and roll.