Quotes About Rebellion

Porque o Pintalgato chegava ao poente e espreitava o lado de lá. Namoriscando o proibido, seus olhos, pirilampiscavam.

I tell it like it is, from real experience. I want to tell people that freedom is great, but that it can also be dangerous.

many features of the dam construction camp of 1905 would still be very much in existence on the Colorado River in 1931—including racial and ethnic discrimination, profiteering at the company store, and the flouting of health and safety regulations in the name of efficient and speedy construction. At Black Canyon, the threat of a Wobbly rebellion would still cast a shadow.

Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spirit... -Calvin Johnson

Music can inspire people to wake up and say, 'Somebody's lying.' This is the point I'd like to make with my music," Watt told Rolling Stone in 1985. "Make you think about what's expected of you, of your friends. What's expected of you by your boss. Challenge those expectations. And your own expectations. Man, you should challenge your own ideas about the world every day.

for instance. "When we say 'World Domination,' " Pavitt explained, "we're saying, 'Fuck you, we're from Seattle, and we don't care if the media machines are in L.A., we're going to create our own.

MacKaye never told anyone to get off the stage. Sometimes this encouraged a rapid and irreversible descent into chaos, but usually it just meant a steady stream of stage divers and kids who just wanted a few seconds of attention while they did some silly dance for their buddies. Anarchy, it seemed, could work.

Punk rock was an idea, not a musical style.

The loser," as TAD guitarist Kurt Danielson explained to the Rocket, "is the existential hero of the Nineties.

And because I don't like sports, and because I don't like disco dancing, and because I don't take drugs, and because I don't drink, and I don't beat my head into the floor, and I don't have a wife to beat, I have Big Black.

the way to fight Babylon was through music.

I'm soooooo telling." Puck stood behind her. "You two disobeyed your parents! I'm both shocked and really impressed.

Daphne stopped and turned to the injured man. "I like my outfit," she said and stuck her tongue out. Mr. Applebee stuck his tongue out, too, and the little girl stomped out of the room.

No one wanted to get sent to Oklahoma, and that was exactly what would happen to you if you got out of line

some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I do what I want. I'm punk rock.

Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them.

To do so, even in the defense of good, would be to be doubly defeated. I believe that is Satan's ultimate objective. Why would a fallen angel want to kill six million, or sixty or a hundred million, or even the whole human race? What would that prove? That he is bad? He already knows that, and God knows it too. No, the prize he is after is no less than to seduce all mankind into his rebellion. And to do it in the name of the good. That would be his masterstroke.

He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like people who like Jack Kerouac," he clarified.

The Indian writer Jiddu Krishnamurti has been quoted as saying, "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

That is the way of it among heretics. They start questioning one doctrine and end up questioning everything. No wonder they used to burn them.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.

Across some of the harshest and most difficult terrain in the world, led by a man who already had a price on his head.

To realize that we live in an absurd culture where we are taught absurd things by absurd people and threatened with absurd consequences for defying all of it is to achieve a level of contentment.