Quotes About Rebellion

Being normal is boring!

D?-i societ??ii aripi ?i le va arde pe rug.

I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

She flew at Harriet and tore the flowers from her hair and scratched her face. Harriet, too dazed to defend herself, reeled back. Agnes flew to Harriet's aid and got her face well and truly slapped for her pains. "Slut!" screamed Cordelia, panting. "Jade! How dare you disobey my orders? You have given Arden such a

Oh, I should like to ride the seas, A roaring buccaneer; A cutlass banging at my knees, A dirk behind my ear. And when my captives' chains would clank I'd howl with glee and drink, And then fling out the quivering plank And watch the beggars sink. I'd like to straddle gory decks, And dig in laden sands, And know the feel of throbbing necks Between my knotted hands. Oh, I should like to strut and curse Among my blackguard crew....

All the kick-ass girls have red hair.

Old Mother God, Old Father God— they keep us trapped. And we do give up. We pull the covers over our head, and go back to sleep. Only to dream of old dragons, old alligators, old crocodiles drinking our blood. To dream of cold-eyed lawmakers saying, This is the way it's always been done. It works. It will stay this way. And you will obey.

Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her.

He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS written across the chest.

It's really a simple rule; you drink a lot, you piss a lot. Robert Mitchum, Mitch to pals, drank a lot. He also fought a lot and screwed a lot. He also pissed a lot.

God couldn't care less about protocol. If He did, Jesus would have chosen the Pharisees as His disciples. But that isn't who Jesus honored.

Westin celebrated the New Year by shooting off some hand flares. Orders were "no fireworks," but you couldn't expect several hundred thousand men in a war zone, armed to the teeth with explosive devices, to follow an order like that.

The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

Rock & roll isn't even music really. It's a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #7: SOMETIMES, IN ORDER TO GET COMPLETELY SANE, YOU HAVE TO GO A LITTLE CRAZY.

Satan loves politics. He is the greatest politician of all time. He politicked in heaven and convinced a third of the angels to join his rebellious political party.

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

As historian Johanna Fernández writes in a study co-authored with political prisoner Abu-Jamal, "The deployment of hysteria around the issue of crime and the association of crime with black rebellion helped consolidate public support for legislation designed to suppress political dissent."[18]

Such groups are often forced to live on the edge of social legality and, even when engaged in fully legal behavior, they are presented and hunted as criminals. Such has been the fate of groups like the Young Lords, and, again, the Black Panther Party, as well as "gangs" in the poor communities of Los Angeles and Chicago, for example, whose offenses were often mixed with programs aiming at social renewal and liberation.

John Lennon was everything his friends wanted to be, and said everything they wanted to say but wouldn't dare. John Lennon always dared.