Quotes About Insubordination

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Bothari nearly choked at the suggestion. "I swear I'll knock you down and sit on you if you go near those suits," he snarled. "Insubordination, Sergeant," Miles hissed back.

You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Ann Fowler was sentenced to twenty lashes in 1637 for defaming a county justice, Adam Thorowgood, with the somewhat undeferential suggestion that Captain Thorowgood could "Kiss my arse.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

Since when the hell do I answer to you? I don't even know you, hence it's none of your damned business. (Spawn) 'Well, someone hadn't taken his personality pills for the night.' (Wulf)

Writing anything is a treason of sorts.

Yet no suffering befalls whoever relinquishes justice and truth, whereas the party system has painful penalties to chastise insubordination. These

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

Most people don't feel conscious hostility to God. The hostility is manifest more subtly with a quiet insubordination and indifference.

I really rebel against authority.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.

veiled insubordination that he

You seem to fit the part all right. Your technical record is first-class. Your disciplinary record stinks to high heaven.' He eyed his listener blank faced. 'Two charges of refusing to obey a lawful order. Four for insolence and insubordination. One for parading with your cap on back to front. What on earth made you do that?' 'I had a bad attack of what-the-hell, sir,' explained Leeming.

Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

La curiosità è insubordinazione allo stato puro.

curiosity is insubordination in its purest form"—the verdict against my father came to my mind.

Much later, when I read a sentence by Nabokov—"curiosity is insubordination in its purest form

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves.

He sent him to bed in an unheated room and taught him to gulp down large amounts of rum and shout insults at church processions.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

When senior officers are angry and insubordinate, and on encountering the enemy rush into battle with no understanding of the feasibility of engaging and without awaiting orders from the commander, the army is in a state of collapse.