Quotes About Rebellion

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

She's burning and out of control and everything I love about fire.

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.

No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.