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Quotes About Rebellion

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy, God will forgive you but the bureaucracy.
~ Hyman George Rickover
We were the only band that played with D.R.I. and C.O.C., and then Celtic Frost and Venom. We were doing shit that nobody else was doing, and we didn't care. I never took myself that seriously.
~ Ian Christe
Do you like Mother and Father?" "they're both all right" "they're not Jimmy, and you shouldn't say so. I hate them, and you should hate them." "all right" I said, "I hate them.
~ Unknown
Sex and drugs and rock and rollIs all my brain and body needSex and drugs and rock and rollIs very good indeed.
~ Ian Dury
By 1969, dancing was all but forbidden by rock bands who insisted that their audiences sit obediently and consume drugs en masse whilst trapped in enormous arenas, raceways, pastures, and superdomes. The rebellion of narcotics had the appeal of being hermetic, secretive, and illegal, but their real purpose was escape from rock itself, which had become intolerable.
~ Unknown
In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.
~ Ian Frazier
the work of his favourite painter at the time, brett whitely, seemed to offer some focus for his rebellious attitude towards moribund suburban melbourne. cave was intrigued by the intensity and diversity of the themes that the sydney-based painter included in his landscapes
~ Unknown
Spartacism.
~ Ian Kershaw
There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.
~ Unknown
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
~ Unknown
He was in his twenties and lived in a caravan behind the pub, which he shared with his tattoos and facial piercings. 'The room you're in is his by rights,' Collins had explained to Rebus, 'but he'd rather be where he is.
~ Ian Rankin
One of those arrogant repeaters went to the hole for having a sassy look in his eyes. The charge was 'visual insubordination.
~ Iceberg Slim
Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their lyrics.
~ Unknown
But there was this one day when I went out to steal a part for my Porsche—
~ Unknown
I wanna shoot you so bad my dick is hard!" Long after the movie came out, I saw cats wearing that on T-shirts, like it's an actual slogan. The line wasn't in the script; it was just something I ad-libbed in the moment. It sounded cool and crazy and believable for
~ Unknown
Cop Killer" was a protest song. It reflects how a lot of Black people were feeling in that particular historical moment. Folks in L.A. were at the point of exploding with rage at police brutality.
~ Unknown
The main thing I learned about "Cop Killer" is this: when you inject white kids with Black rage—and you do it through something as seductive and persuasive as rock 'n' roll—that's dangerous. To the people in authority, that's always going to be seen as a threat.
~ Unknown
And in those final years, when he was off doing shit on his own, Spike didn't stick to the rules. He started to think he was too smart. Too ingenious. He was definitely feeling himself. He even changed his name. When I met him, he was simply
~ Unknown
I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
~ Iggy Pop
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
~ Iggy Pop
Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
~ Iggy Pop
Status seekers, I never cared Once I found out they never dared To seize the world and shake it upside down And every stinking bum should wear a crown
~ Iggy Pop
I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn
~ Iggy Pop
my childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.
~ Igor Stravinsky