Quotes About Rebellion

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and...Twinkies, especially in honor of those who would rather just be forced to eat our peas.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

I hope I die before I get old.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

Bite me, Harry Potter.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution