Quotes About Rebellion

Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864

I want to know why if men rule the world they don't stop wearing neckties.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.

Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.