Quotes About Rebellion

There are always people who are doing things that don't fit the official accounts.

Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.

I love old school rock and roll.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.

Seriously, my grandma's like the oldest lady on ShipRocked every year. My grandma's crazy.

The FIS, BSF, and British Olympic Association have been trying to stop me competing internationally. They don't like the fact that I laugh and have fun and entertain the crowd.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.

I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to 'Cirque du Soleil.' I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times.

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits.

I was a huge Operation Ivy fan.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

I've always had a lot of energy and had a lot of opinions all my life - people misunderstood that about me being naughty, gobby, or different.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. - Oscar Wilde (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.