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Quotes About Rebellion

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.
~ Tom Morello
I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.
~ Kesha
Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
~ Beth Ditto
The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.
~ Juliana Hatfield
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.
~ Adolf Hitler
I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.
~ Marco Pantani
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
~ Rebecca Miller
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.
~ Adolf Hitler
I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.
~ Rei Kawakubo
When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
~ Dave Grohl
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.
~ Thurston Moore
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.
~ Paul Carus
I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.
~ Leonid Feodorov
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
~ Agnes Repplier
I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal.
~ Invader
Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.
~ J.M. McDermott, Straggletaggle
Human being is the only creature I found ho does everything he is not suppose to do.
~ Srinivas Shenoy
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
~ Neil Postman
I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!
~ Chrissie Hynde
The highest form of patriotism is dissent.
~ Matthew Dowd
And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die? Here's thirty thousand Cornish men, Will know the reason why!
~ Robert Stephen Hawker