Quotes About Rebellion

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

The mainstream thinks that every skateboarder aspires to be in the X Games.

Mainstream's never appealed to me, really. I mean, I've become popular over the years in certain areas. But mainstream, you know, I would rather the mainstream come to me.

As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

I come from a time when music used to make a difference.

I am very into making up my own rules.

I don't represent anybody and I don't hold anything at such a high arc that I gotta manage by somebody's rule. I don't ever do good with rules.

As a player I thought all managers were doing something wrong.

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levered herself up, wondering if she was meant to kiss this hand or not. But since she felt more like raising her stick and beating the King over the head with it, she shook the King's hand and gave a creaking little curtsy.

Be daffodils in June, you beastly things!

TONINO READ HALF THE NIGHT. With all the grown-ups hard at work in the Scriptorium, there was no one to tell him to go to bed.

The Underground Peasant Movement adopted the slogan of As little, as late, and as bad as possible, and set about sabotaging deliveries

about 1,500 guerrillas fought back at every chance.

There are too many silly rules in our lives," she said, "and our lives are far too short to pay attention to them.

When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.

Alinsky's contempt for traditional morality can also be seen in the figure to whom he dedicated his book Rules for Radicals. That figure is the devil. Alinsky calls Lucifer "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom." He goes on to say, "If there's an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly go to hell. Hell would be heaven for me."15

bulls and even royal edicts were largely ignored thousands of miles

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.