Quotes About Rebellion

A Walk on the Wild Side

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

significado coloquial se aproxima más a "revoltoso". Yo no creo que los nombres predeterminen el destino, ni que mi padre adivinara de algún modo cuál iba a ser mi futuro, pero en años posteriores, tanto mis amigos como mis parientes llegaron a atribuir a ese nombre las muchas tempestades que he causado, y a

an immoral and unjust legal system would breed contempt for its laws and regulations.

Es de sentido común que un sistema legal inmoral e injusto sólo puede engendrar desprecio hacia sus normas y sus leyes. Llegamos

I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

To the unenlightened man this will seem to be all fantasy, yet all progress comes from those who do not take the accepted view, nor accept the world as it is.

When people are feeling fabulous, they don't want to take any crap from anybody, particularly the cops.

Jimmy Mack said she had Gone-into-Teaching because it was the only place where she could rule without reprisal; where she could give free rein to the awesome dimension of her need to crush things. Mr. Conheedy it seemed had enjoyed this for the first three months of their marriage, but then had run off, Nan said to try and find a female Mrs. Conheedy next time around.

You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.

Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can.

Aló, ¿con la Casa de la Cultura? - Sí conchetumadre.

Something Like That PARRA LAUGHS like he's condemned to hell but when haven't poets laughed? at least he declares that he's laughing

There's this road you're expected to be on. You're supposed to do your GCSEs and then your A levels and then you go to uni and then you get a proper job. I can see my whole life in front of me like a great slab of tarmac. What if I don't want it?

He who establishes a tyranny and does not kill Brutus, and he who establishes a democratic regime and does not kill the sons of Brutus, will not last long.

Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a rebel. ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ... GREATNESS.

I'm a bad motherfucker, don't you know--and I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy's asshole," said Stagger Lee.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

No, I'm talking about being a complete loser. That's something totally new to the rock idiom, which by its very nature is immature and totally macho-orientated in its basic attitude.

We just see Happy Mondays as this licence to do what we want right now as much as possible.

don't believe in the fuckin' work ethic. This "work is what life's all about" shit is just a bunch of bollocks, it's just a fuckin' English bourgeois guilt trip invented by the fuckin' English bourgeoisie to keep people in line, y'know, like a bunch of happy fuckin' slaves. Bourgeois guilt means fuckin' nothin' to me.

That word doesn't have any fuckin' meaning for me. In this life, some people are just less mad than others. That's all.

like all the great rock'n'rollers, to sound like he'd dropped in from another planet and yet get the stuff which was right to the heart of what you were living today. That was how he opened up your vision.