Quotes About Rebellion

In the middle of the night, Keith Richards painted Capote's hotel room door with ketchup, thumbing his nose at the snooty Mr. Capote and the Princess with a not-so-veiled reference to In Cold Blood.

Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out.

Egypt and Babylon became the cultural and intellectual centres of the world. But dynastic intrigue, corruption, rebellion, and an ever sterner rule had steadily weakened the empire.

Defiance through compliance.

For God's sake, Mother," he said in an exasperated tone, "is there nothing dumb, daft or dangerous that you haven't tried at some point?

She had, in a few short words, utterly defiled, defamed and defaced the finely tuned social order that was the bedrock of the Collective.

vine aquí sin el permiso de los médicos. Pinches médicos, esa gente quiere que vivamos más de lo que nos corresponde...

Launching a sustained assault on the citadel of good times.

there've always been hippies of one kind or another. They just go under different names with each new generation. Bohemians, beatniks, dropouts, free spirits, freaks, whatever.

I don't mind being killed, but I don't want them to touch me.

In New York, madmen are free. Put out on the streets, they're not all that different from the punks, junk, junkies, alcoholics, beggars who fill it. It is unclear why a city, just as mad, would suddenly keep its madmen locked up, why should he deprive the movement of these samples of madness, if it, in one form or another, has already captured the entire city

Freedom is not as free as is generally thought: it produces antibodies which rebel against it. Truth, too, is threatened from within, like a state battling with its own police force. If values enjoyed total immunity, they would be as lethal as a scientific truth.

The only impossible revolution, says Ceronetti in substance, one that is even inconceivable to reason, would be the revolution against machines- and this impossibility turns all other revolutions into a schizophrenic farce.

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. Trampling down the leaves like snow in the wild light of the dead citadel, whose prince in days gone by rebelled against his king, for which reason the walls were pulled down.

Bir baÅŸka deyiÅŸle kitlelerin Beaubourg'a koÅŸmalar?n?n nedeni yüzlerce y?ld?r kendilerini yoran, b?kt?ran bu kültür kar??s?nda salya ak?tmak deÄŸil, her zaman nefret etmiÅŸ olduklar? bir kültürün yas?n? tutma f?rsat?n? kitle hâlinde ilk kez ellerine geçirmiÅŸ olmalar?d?r.

Oh, you!Don't pay any attention to him, Mr. Bowditch! His nose is out

a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.

If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.

I will write my name in fire red.

Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one?

So much violence. If God existed, I'd have strangled him on the spot. Without batting an eyelid. And with all the fury of the damned.

We're slaves, not idiots. That's all you have to understand.

The other kids threw bars of soap at her, pushed one another into her path and wrote graffiti about her on the bathroom walls. In return, she cursed them out in Latin.