Quotes About Rebellion

Bob Dylan was different. Where most folk singers were either clean-cut or homey looking, Dylan had wild long hair. He resembled a poor white dropout of questionable morals. His songs were hard-driving, powerful, intense. It was hard to be neutral about them. "The Times They Are a-Changing" was perhaps the first song to exploit the generation gap. Dylan's life was as controversial as his ideology.

A hint of nonconformity was all he would risk.

I did not usually feel that sort of passion about any case, but I disliked this murderer already. For murdering, yes, but also for fucking with us. For refusing to submit.

The iPod was a leak. It was a danger. I brought it down to the basement and laid it on my little worktable, glass side up, and I got a hammer and smashed it.

Monica was the first woman in town to bob her hair," said Miss Burgess. "And she was the first woman, at least the first respectable one, to smoke in public." "When you see her," continued Miss Claudia, "tell her I think she stepped on my train because Colonel Glass had danced with me three times that evening, and hadn't danced with her once.

They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him." -- David Benioff; City of Thieves

Lihatlah bajingan-bajingan itu mengencingi tanah kita. Mereka tak akan tertawa sekeras itu ketika aku berjongkok dan buang air besar di tengah-tengah Berlin. Mungkin itulah sebabnya aku tidak bisa mengeluarkan tinja. Ususku menunggu kemenangan.

They have decided nothing nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.

A caricature of this result," Butterfield adds, "is to be seen in a popular view that is still not quite eradicated: the view that the Middle Ages represented a period of darkness when man was kept tongue-tied by authority—a period against which the Renaissance was the reaction and the Reformation the great rebellion."14

And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through. - Changes

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.

The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal

Invited round to meet Ava Cherry's mother and father, Bowie finished off his meal by bringing out a phial of coke and snorting right in front of them.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Stop making sense

quite naturally, I am curious about behaviour which does not fit the natural patterns, which floats suspended at some unexplored level of the sentient sea and defies the tides and waves of society.

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)

Keep saying no to her, Since she was a baby. Keep saying no to her, Not even maybe. from "Why?" by the Byrds

Both [Satan and Melkor/Morgoth] are loud in their defiance, claiming that they would "rather rule in hell than serve in heaven". One might have admired these rebel angels if one believed their defiance was in the name of liberty- however, both lied. Their rebellions were only provoked by envy and the usurpers' wishes to take the perceived tyrants' place. Never were two more natural tyrants than Morgoth and Satan.

But one thing that all conceptions of the Enlightenment agree on is that it was a rebellion, and specifically a rebellion against authority in regard to knowledge.

one thing that all conceptions of the Enlightenment agree on is that it was a rebellion, and specifically a rebellion against authority in regard to knowledge.

Opposition to the current ruler doesn't make one a traitor to the state

Él quería ser como ellos, escapar de la dictadura del sentimiento.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.