Quotes About Rebellion

If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at curved lines and go down in flames.

They said,"You are a savage and dangerous woman.I am speaking the truth.And the truth is savage and dangerous".

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

So that means about twelve billion people dead. And the remaining six billion ruled by a government that would even like to control their thoughts.

He wasn't sure which he hated most, the oppressive government of this world or the mindless, ever-breeding swarm it governed.

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.

Well, you can fuck off,' said Blade. 'I am Mobius Clean,' said the AI.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture.

It is quite probable that the most original problem solving activity students engage in school is related to the invention of systems for beating the system.

skip a day's class

If you want to live life exactly the way you want to, rather than following convention, then you've got to defy convention to finance that lifestyle.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio.

There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead. I don't feel like a satan but I guess I am...keep on rockin' the free world.

Rock and Roll can never die.

Rock 'n' roll is everybody's fucking music…I would certainly hope that it's the devil's music, but it's not just the devil's music. I think that's where God and the devil shake hands – right there.

Keep on rockin' in the free world!

My private affairs are no concern of society's. Conventions are only made to be broken. Why shouldn't I have my own way of breaking them?

Her reason partly agreed, her instinct wholly rebelled.

I never consented to this body I've been charged with dragging until my death—