Quotes About Rebellion

We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought to preserve.

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

People are just uptight because the kids are having fun. They didn't have the same freedom because they didn't take it; they just followed the lives laid down by their parents. And they're jealous of the people who didn't do that.

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V. And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

You say you'll change the Constitution We all want to change your head You tell me 'it's the institution' You'd better free your mind instead.

Revolt is the right of the people

Chaos was my philosophy. Oh, yeah. Have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

Disco sucks? You never heard that from me.

Within a year or two, however, a couple of the first things I wrote – 'Anarchy In The UK' and 'God Save The Queen' – really hit their target. I'd like to thank the British public library system: that was my training ground, that's where I learned to throw those verbal grenades. I wasn't just throwing bricks through shop windows as a voice of rebellion, I was throwing words where they really mattered. Words count.

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot live in a coed dorm have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!

Always games, baby. But the rules are ours to break.' Julian Harte

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!