Quotes About Rebellion

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

And many thanks to you, Mrs. Blackwell, for bringing the weaknesses of our cell locks to our attention. She broke out twice," the officer informed Saxon. "We finally had to tie her up.

Smoke, drink and never think.

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

His ears were so littered with studs, safety pins and dangling razor blades that if he were to stand between two strong magnets his face would peel off.

Before Thomas could say a word, before Molly could protest, Bailey leaned over the table and kissed her firmly on the lips—on the lips, in the dining room, under the crystal chandelier that swayed when she opened her eyes. "Bailey, I told you that until we're wed you're to pretend there's no agreement." "Must've forgot." He picked up his hat and strutted out the door before her shocked father could stop him.

Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.

At 3 am anything was possible: you could do a handstand on a genever bottle

Niet te geloven dat ik knaap nog een vers schreef over de zilverwitheid van een berkestam en om mij heen grootse dronkenschap van de bevrijding: het water was whisky geworden. Alles zoop en naaide, heel Europa was een groot matras en de hemel het plafond van een derderangshotel. En ik bedeesde jongeling moest nodig de reine berk bezingen en zijn bescheiden bladerpracht.

When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver.

She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.

He was like the mule in the story that kept running into trees; he wasn't blind, he was just so mad he didn't give a damn.

Go to hell, I'm reading. ~Archie Goodwin

Kurt Cobain said that.

Nada es tan desalentador como un esclavo satisfecho.

É com os escritores imaginários que eu aprendo o que quero fazer. Por exemplo, Stephen Dedalus ou Nick Adams. Leio suas vidas como um modo de entender do que se trata. Não tenho interesse em me inspirar nos escritores "reais". O desprezo de Dedalus pela família, pela religião e pela pátria será o meu. Silêncio, exílio e astúcia.

Guy Molony, who ran away from New Orleans at sixteen to fight in the Boer War. It was the era of romantic soldiering, when boys heeded the call of Rudyard Kipling ("Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, / Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst," he wrote in "Mandalay").

absolute criminality is absolute freedom.

I'm convinced that no normal human being ever woke up one morning and said, "Dammit, my life doesn't have enough petty bureaucratic rules, zero-tolerance policies, censorship, and fear in it. How do I fix that?

Perhaps you should have been a dragon yourself!" she shouted back. "If you could see the world as I see it!

Then he had beaten her with a hockey stick because he had objected to her nailing the paw of a beige cocker spaniel to the floor because the dog was stubborn and refused to understand the most elemental instructions to remain still when she had called out the command to do so.

Instead, he was perfectly willing to cut them out even if it meant spiting himself—just as he had defaced his mandolin by gouging out the "Gibson" inlay, just as he had neglected to record Peter Rowan's lead singing.

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.