Quotes About Rebellion

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us

I will not kiss your fucking flag

Goddamn everything but the circus

There is some shit I shall not eat, and I will not kiss your fucking flag!

old age sticks up Keep Off signs)& youth yanks them down(old age cries No Tres)&(pas) youth laughs (sing old age scolds Forbid den Stop Must n't Don't &)youth goes right on gr owing old

So the Trustees of Ohio State were right in 1956 when they canned the English instructor for assigning Catcher in the Rye to his freshman class. They knew there is no qualitative difference between the kid who thinks it's funny to fart in chapel, and Che Guevara. They knew then Holden Caulfield would found SDS.

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested.

She was bored with simply being straight-A's Claudia Kincaid. She was tired of arguing about whose turn it was to choose the Sunday night seven-thirty television show, of injustice, and of the monotony of everything.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

But her course was too purely reasonable not to contain the germs of rebellion.

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

Don't let us be like all the others! she protested.

the things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.

imagination WAS the eagle that devoured Prometheus!

What can you expect of a girl who was allowed to wear black satin at her coming out ball.

Undine leaned close enough for her lowered voice to reach him. 'Can't you understand that, knowing how they all feel about me and how Ralph feels - I'd give almost anything to get away?' Her father looked at her compassionately. 'I guess most of us feel that way once in a way when we're young, Undine. Later on you'll see going away ain't much use when you've got to turn around and come back.

There is nothing like a Revolution for making people conservative.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us

When you drive him hard, the boar will surely turn upon the hunters. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No-body will be argued into slavery.

Massacre, torture, hanging! These are your rights of men!

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

some twenty boys sat behind wilfully collapsible desks, occupying their brief intermission in various more or less destructive and useless ways.