Quotes About Rebellion

Stubborn' just means you don't want to do something somebody else wants you to do, and 'annoying' just means somebody else is frustrated that you won't obey them.

but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer. Until you get a soldier who can do more than anyone else. You can't have that. It spoils the symmetry. You must get him in line, break him down, isolate him, beat him until he gets in line with everyone else.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

Every woman is a rebel.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

where he might variously be called a terrorist or a martyr or a murderer or a guerrilla or a freedom fighter

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him.