Quotes About Rebellion

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

I don't like weeds! My father made me mow weeds and cut weeds when I was a kid. I've hated weeds ever since I was 12 years old. I'll never go in the weeds! I'll never gonna take you in the weeds.

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

We must dissent from the fear.

Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.