Quotes About Rebellion

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.

If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

A hated government does not long survive.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong

Become goddesses of disobedience.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?