Quotes About Rebellion

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

I am freedom and I will eat your heart

Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.