Quotes About Rebellion

Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own (and follow them strictly).

When I grow up I am going to be the gangster we are all looking for.

In the fall of the year I turned sixteen, I jumped out of my bedroom window and ran away. The night's black roads wound like long stretches of river. … The streets ribboned out in all directions. I lifted first one foot and then the other, ready to run down all of them

She wanted to say in a voice thick and passionate, "you're so wrong", but what was the point of saying that when they didn't realize their rules were only that, their rules, and not some absolute, pre-existing creed that was their mission to interpret and protect?

Suzanne Collins could have chosen to give us Coin as president, an example of a continuous pattern, mistakes just waiting to be made again. Instead she gives us a song. And children. And though "they play on a graveyard" (Mockingjay), the important thing is that they are free to play.

Your heart is a weapon the size of your first. Keep fighting. Keep loving. More than bombs, fire, guns or arrows, love is the most powerful weapon in the Hunger Games. It stirs and feeds the rebellion. It saves the doomed. It destroys the bereaved. And it gives even the most devastated survivors a reason to go on.

following the herd was not a good thing, that it was a terrible thing to do

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.

I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

The bad guys are whoever it is who think they are better than everybody else. This world needs to be turned upside down.

the world learned that Lady Liberty will shove her torch of freedom up your ass if you fuck with us.

I exposed the deputies who give favorable treatment to celebrities for drunk driving and wife beating. They hate me, too.

In the morning, when my grandmother is in the kitchen, I will place enough of this powder into my sisters' and my porridge bowls. Mama and Dad will be sad, but it will be all right.

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

I remember my favorite nights were just getting drunk and walking around outside the East Village kicking over garbage cans. Just the night. Just that it would be night again. And you could go out, you know? It just seemed glorious. (Please Kill Me.)

Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)

Rispetto a quello che stava succedendo nel mondo reale, la decadenza sembrava un vezzo. Quindi il punk andava oltre la decadenza: il punk era l'apocalisse. Era l'annientamento. Non funzionava più niente, e allora tanto valeva passare direttamente all'Apocalisse.

So punk wasn't about decay, punk was about the apocalypse. Punk was about annihilation.

Everyone thought in the early days of punk, certainly once English punk got going, and even American punk, everyone thought it was a horrible right-wing Nazi thing—violent, racist, and against everything good in life.

Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge.