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Quotes About Rebellion

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
~ Marquis de Sade
I'm a bad woman, but I'm damn good company.
~ Fanny Brice
Good work is always done in defiance of management.
~ Bob Woodward
All good art is an indiscretion.
~ Tennessee Williams
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
~ Patti Smith
I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
~ Caitlin Moran
Rock and roll is about having a good time.
~ Andy Biersack
I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.
~ Helen Mirren
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
~ David Whyte
Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.
~ John Cusack
With bad girls, you can't go as many places as you can with a good girl. But, it is fun to play the bad girl because you always get the better wardrobe!
~ Meaghan Martin
I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.
~ Bobby Cannavale
You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
~ Erica Jong
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Be good only if being bad ain't more fun.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
~ Jenny Downham
My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.
~ Jim Goad
Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.
~ Julie Burchill
I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.
~ Katherine Heigl
Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
I'm no good at being good.
~ Loretta Chase
I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.
~ Marilyn Wallace