Quotes About Rebellion

Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual where they dress in Santa suits, take toys from department stores and distribute them to children on the street, partly just so everyone can relish the images of the cops beating down Santa and snatching the toys back from crying children.

Humans may not have begun their history in a state of primordial innocence, but they do appear to have begun it with a self-conscious aversion to being told what to do.

all in all, you're just another jade in the wall').

Women probably find him sweet. Me, I just want to pull the pin on a grenade.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

starting with Martin Luther's rebellion against the Church of Rome in 1517, led to widespread religious wars founded on philosophical differences: one side took Church authority and tradition as the criterion of truth, the other appealed instead to the Spirit of God acting within the individual believer.

I]f subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable;

No one rules if no one obeys

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Major Message Bad attitudes and demands that the Lord give us what we want are unwise. The people had a bad and rebellious attitude. Rather than humbly requesting some meat to go with the manna, if it had been in harmony with the Lord's will, they demanded meat and complained loudly to Moses, as if he were the Lord. Their prideful and strident approach is answered by the Lord with a severe lesson.

I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.

In October, 1819—six months before the first Christian missionaries arrived on the islands—Liholiho, under the inspiration of Kaahumanu, one of the widows of his father, suddenly, and in the presence of a large concourse of horrified natives, broke the most sacred of the tabus of his religion by partaking of food from vessels from which women were feasting, and the same day decreed the destruction of every temple and idol in the kingdom.

have no idea who she was," Brandell said, "although I did recognize her from somewhere—I had the feeling that it was something bad. She was tattooed and pierced and all that crap and looked like a heavy rocker or goth or punk, plus she was as thin as hell.

Young people are meant to go off the rails politically, aren't they? And there are certainly far worse things one can do than dream about equality.

Balder is not too keen on people who wear ties and work from nine to five. He prefers obsessive idiots who are glued to their computers all night long,

Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control.

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

JEFF. I never asked. What happened to your leg, Mrs. Levaco? PATTIE. When Kim was staying at the hospital with her heart attack, I snuck out back for a quick smoke and I fell off the loading dock. JEFF. Oh. You probably shouldn't have been smoking anyway. PATTIE. Hey, I smoked when I was pregnant with Kim and nothin' happened to her ! ( Pattie exits .) JEFF. I'd like to put your mom in a room with my dad and conduct experiments.

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.