Quotes About Rebellion

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

Hellraisers destroy only themselves, and they do it because they love life too much to fall asleep.

Authorities! Permits! Insurance! How I yearn for the days when a man could just bust loose, tear around and get what needs to be done, done.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

had my hair permed down the center but cut shorter on the sides, in a recent fit of enthusiasm for the artist who was still then known as Prince and also for the look of a singer named Adam Ant. Despite my stylist's valiant efforts, my hair looked nothing like theirs. But I did look like someone trying very hard not to look like everyone else; I was elaborately disguised as someone who didn't care what other people thought of me.

But Henry was not prepared to submit. In a speech supporting his resolutions, he supposedly exclaimed, "Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third..." Before he could finish the phrase, red-robed Speaker of the House John Robinson cried, "Treason! Treason," as other burgesses took up the cry. But Henry stared the Speaker in the eye and finished his sentence: "...may profit by their example! If this be treason, make the most of it!

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau.Mock on, mock on—'tis all in vain!You throw the sand against the wind,And the wind blows it back again.