Quotes About Rebellion

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

Break open the forbidden happiness.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

All this health and safety talk is just killing me.

They've come to overthrow the court, sir!

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

You have to be a little bad to make history.