Quotes About Rebellion

Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher—" "Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I spent the entire Eighties wishing I was pissing on her rotting corpse.

If I see one more Virgin Mary, I'm going to get knocked up

The anarchist movement is filled with people who are less interested in overthrowing the existing oppressive social order than with washing their hands of it.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Doing the right thing for everyone eventually makes other people hate you. I want to be free to make a fool of myself.

May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was about five, Charles walked in to find his son jumping up and down and tumbling all over a new sofa. 'Oh Lenny, Lenny,' Charles said. 'You know it is against all rules.' 'Then,' Lenny said to his papa, 'I think you'd better go out of the room.' And so Charles did.

Soll ich, weil's Brauch ist, ein Stück Eisen stecken in das nächste Fleisch oder ins übernächste, mich dran zu halten, weil die Welt sich dreht? Herr, brich mir das Genick im Sturz von einer Bierbank.

A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.

Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie." ("A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.")

His youngest sister, Linda, wanted to be a singer and she had now refused point-blank to go to secretarial college; his father had refused pointblank to let her study music. Linda had gone to the piano and begun to play Chopin's Prelude No. 24 in D minor, a bitter piece of music which gains in tragic intensity when played 40 times in a row.

I want a book genre called "It's not chick lit. It's lit, bitch!

At casinos, I see senior citizens grazing on slot machines clad in a trend that I call toddling. Toddling is dressing like a toddler: clamdiggers and a cotton top, no belt, mall-walking sneakers. It's a look that says, I give up. Or, I don't give a damn what anybody thinks of me anymore. I'm not sure which.

these boys chipping at the rigidities of social deference, in search of a place, a voice. In Spain too the old power seemed to be dying, but slowly and viciously and, as it turned out, not yet. Nor would it depart in the way scripted by Republican reformers, and not before in its passing it claimed from that generation a barbaric tribute, exacted in the coin of "national cleansing

those who had defended the Republic court-martialled and executed en masse for "military rebellion".

So we see the complex and contradictory motives that so often lay behind the apparently binary choices made by people in the wake of the rebellion. Indeed, this enforced reductiveness, the obligation to 'take sides', constitutes the coup's first, and most enduring, act of violence.

The military rebels issued secret orders dating back to April 1936 that indicated maximum force was to be used: this was violence as the end of the argument over constitutional reform.

The military rebels and their civilian supporters were thus redefining "the enemy" as entire sectors of society that were perceived as "out of control

Rebel violence was targeted against the socially, culturally and sexually different.

the Republic was seeking to defend itself against a rebel onslaught backed by the industrial might and military muscle of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

those who had defended the Republic were court-martialled and executed en masse for "military rebellion", a punishment that would continue after 1939.

those with the habit of line-crossing as a mode of being would never and could never fit the requirements of any state narrative.

The Spanish Civil War began with a military coup.

in rebel territory, the onslaught against "red" women was integrally linked to the reimposition of traditionalist forms of social order