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Quotes About Rebellion

All his life Snufkin had longed to pull down notices that asked him not to do things he liked to do.
~ Tove Jansson
I'm going to sleep outside. I don't want a bed. Beds are stupid.
~ Tove Jansson
Allra mest tyckte jag om att få var svinaktig med Hitler og Stalin.
~ Tove Jansson
Juuri tällä hetkellä hän halusi tapella kenen kanssa tahansa, vain tapella ja huutaa ja olla vakuuttunut siitä, että kaikki muut olivat väärässä ja että hänen oli annettava niille selkään.
~ Tove Jansson
No.» A Nomi si spezzò il cuore. «Non è una scelta se non si ha la libertà di dire no. Un sì non ha valore quando è l'unica risposta concessa!»
~ Unknown
When her father had taught her to fly, he hadn't expected her to take to it so strongly. She knew this because he'd told her as much. He wanted her to be serious and concentrate on her schooling. Focus on being a duster for his groves. The fancy flying, the dips and twists and turns . . . it had never been important to anyone but her. And maybe Calix, who knew how much she loved being in the sky.
~ Unknown
Dysis stared at her over the top of the shower door, unself-conscious and angry. "You came all this way for some lovesick suicide mission? Yeah, I'd say that's stupid.
~ Unknown
I know you value the rules, but sometimes . . . sometimes breaking them is the right thing to do. I
~ Unknown
Some say we're already damned," Nathanial replied coolly, sitting back in his chair. "So you're too late to send him to Hell." -- BLOOD KNOT
~ Unknown
They saw the ordered concrete and steel of postwar United States showing stress fractures and were determined to bring it down and break free.
~ Tracy Hickman
VIOLET: Oh, horseshit, horeshit, let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill. BILL: Horseshit.
~ Tracy Letts
Nobody crossed the Directions, not even the police. Because the Directions worked for The Smoke. Reuben headed south, moving from alley to alley, keeping close to the buildings and ducking beneath windows.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
According to the rules of chess, is this position possible?' Constance writes in response, 'Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Oh, yes," said Kate with a laugh. "When I was seven I ran away from the orphanage to join the circus. They brought me back, but I just ran away again, and I kept running away every time they brought me back. Eventually it was agreed that I could join the circus and save everybody a lot of trouble. So that's what I've been doing the past few years. It's been great fun, too
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Be rational' is what they tell you when you are having a sane reaction to an insane situation, and the rationale behind their conception of reason is FUCKED. Be rational. What it really means is assume your position in the status quo. Assume the position.
~ Unknown
What are you doing tonight?' 'Sex, drugs, tattooing our arms with old syringes off the street, that kind of thing,' he said good-naturedly.
~ Unknown
Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.
~ Tristan Tzara
I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.
~ Tristan Tzara
Les cloches sonnent sans raison et nous aussi
~ Tristan Tzara
Dada est la vie sans pantoufles ni parallèles; qui est contre et pour l'unité et décidément contre le futur; [...] et crachons sur l'humanité.
~ Tristan Tzara
My parents are terrorist scum, and that is why I have turned my back on them." The
~ Troy Denning
Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.
~ Trudi Canavan