Quotes About Rebellion

Expelled from the art institute for, among other reasons, drawing nudes as a single straight line, à la Cocteau, he was a young man of 21 well versed in "acts of a rebellion against the squares.

Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker!

The French have a term for this brazenness: je m'en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU STUPID CRIPPLE!

Understand that no one can give you freedom. Freedom is a treasure that must be stolen.

Never forget: dupes believe, slaves fear, and rebels defy.

The purpose of art is subversion. Art is telling the world how it's killing you. How its institutions have failed you. In the end, any culture worth damn is made by subversives. Because art is what tells the world it needs to change. Power merely redecorates it.

Gandhi saw that the power of any tyrant depends entirely on people being willing to obey. The tyrant may get people to obey by threatening to throw them in prison, or by holding guns to their heads. But the power still resides in the obedience, not in the prison or the guns.

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

The world does not need a 'gay Elvis', for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant narcissism, was quite queer enough

Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and though I knew the heart would lose, I couldn't bear to call it right.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

Devrimler, seçkinlere kar?? kendili?inden isyanlardan daha fazlas?na ihtiyaç duyar. Devrimler, sadece yöneticinin veya birkaç yasan?n de?i?mesiyle yetinmeyen, ama a?a??dan yukar?ya toplumun her yönünü kavrayan yeni bir etik sistem getirmeye çal??an bir toplumsal kesimin varl???n? gerektirir.

I want bad girls to win.

To the end of homicidal dictators with weird black bangs and puny square mustaches!

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

She makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed…. The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell—everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it.

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell."

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath-day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.