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Quotes About Rebellion

Doctor," came the reply, "I'm going to do all the things you tell me not to do. If I've got to live the sort of life you have described, I don't care how short it is.
~ Edmund Morris
Doctor," came the reply, "I'm going to do all the things you tell me not to do. If I've got to live the sort of life you have described, I don't care how short it is." Having spat the wormwood out
~ Edmund Morris
Later I would know some real workers—heavily tattooed, hair worn in ponytails, motorcycle-riding, manga-reading, and pill-popping—and I realized they were as batty as we were, far from the standardized robots of our fantasies. Americans, rich or poor, were a nation of weirdos.
~ Edmund White
Dilly, do not ever forget your own people." My brother came with me to wait for the mail car. He took off his brown scapulars and gave them to me, it being his way of saying goodbye. "In your letters, better not mention politics," he said. He had a secret life from us, he was a Croppy Boy, so many young men were, but dared not speak of it for fear of informers.
~ Edna O'Brien
treason against such a prince might easily be considered as patriotism to the state.
~ Edward Gibbon
It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Dicen que los poetas y los intelectuales son los mejores terroristas
~ Edward Rutherfurd
observe everything . . . ?trust nobody . . . ?despise your mother . . . ?effort is vulgar . . . ?things were better in the eighteenth century.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
There was the stench of kerosene and burning tires wafting through the air. It was only a matter of time before the rubber smell would be replaced with that of flesh.
~ Edwidge Danticat
they speak whatever's on their mind they do whatever's in their pants the boys i mean are not refined they shake the mountains when they dance
~ ee cummings
With rebellion, awareness is born.
~ Albert Camus
Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
~ Albert Camus
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
~ Albert Camus
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
~ Albert Camus
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
~ Albert Camus
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
~ Albert Camus
Every insubordinate person, when he rises up against oppression, reaffirms thereby the solidarity of all men.
~ Albert Camus
What is a rebel A man who says no.
~ Albert Camus
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
~ Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
~ Albert Einstein
If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.
~ Albert Meltzer
We were playing this music and we were trying to be the heaviest thing on the face of the planet. We wanted just to piss people off and send everybody home. and that can't be, like, flower metal." - Possessed's Jeff Beccera on coining the term 'death metal
~ Albert Mudrian
all dark and serious, really. You know, the simplest thing in the world is for white kids that are a little bit troubled to go really pompous on it all—like you get a splinter in your finger and suddenly you have a whole grindcore
~ Albert Mudrian
I was never a keeper of sheep
~ Alberto Caeiro