Quotes About Rebellion

Sometimes the best way to find out what you're supposed to do is by doing the thing you're not supposed to do.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.