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Quotes About Rebellion

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.
~ Paulo Coelho
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
~ Paulo Coelho
Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.
~ Paulo Coelho
You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
~ Paulo Coelho
They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreamers can't be tamed.
~ Paulo Coelho
Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things.
~ Paulo Coelho
People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.
~ Paulo Coelho
You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: You could try something else.
~ Paulo Coelho
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.
~ Paulo Coelho
I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.
~ Paulo Coelho
I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.
~ Paulo Coelho
One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.
~ Paulo Coelho
Changes only happen when we go totally against everything we're used to doing.
~ Paulo Coelho
You were not merely a person unjustly accused of espionage, but someone who dared to challenge certain customs. And for that you could not be forgiven. However
~ Paulo Coelho
For the soul of man is born fresh in every child, and there is an age in every creature, unless he is debased too young, when for a time he sees clearly the difference between truth and falsehood, and hypocrisy infuriates him. He cannot forgive those who should be true and instead are liars. This fury, I believe, is the first cause for revolutions throughout history.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when she was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her waist tied, and forbade her wages and skills and learning, and widowed her when he was dead, and burned her sometimes to ashes, pretending that it was her faithfulness that did it.
~ Pearl S. Buck
You ought to hate him, Yuan! Have you not heard what white men have done to our country, and how they hold us hard as any prisoners with their cruel, unjust treaties?
~ Pearl S. Buck
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!
~ James Dashner, The Maze Runner
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
~ Duane Michals