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Quotes About Insubordination

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.
~ Ian Brown
One private from the Parachute Regiment had passed Nobby every morning on his way from the married quarters. 'Morning, sir!' he would say. One day Nobby stopped him. 'No need to keep calling me "sir" when we see each other every day,' he told him. 'My name's Nobby.' The following day the soldier passed the RSM as usual. 'Morning, Nobby,' he said. 'You're under arrest for insubordination!' said Mr Arnold.
~ Michael Asher
Yet at the same time humans are inherently irreverent. It was Saint Bonaventura, a thirteenth-century theologian, who said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind." We love to make fun of the higher-ups. We're always ready to bring them down. And the powerful know this all too well. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," as Shakespeare wrote.
~ Frans de Waal
He's not following any of the rules, is he?
~ Stephen Graham Jones
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.
~ Sun Tzu
Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice." Rebellion?
~ Suzanne Collins
He was out of line
~ J.D. Robb
None of his brothers dared to throw out a grumble, because the protocol button had been punched: If they were around outsiders, they treated him as their sovereign lord and king. Which meant no fucking around and no insubordination. Maybe they needed visitors more often in the fucking house
~ J.R. Ward
crotch-eared mean-ass
~ Jack Kerouac
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Insubordinate/undisciplined witch—murders colleagues, not on board with mission objectives, declines to disclose functionality
~ Neal Stephenson
Mr. Asher, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." "No, ma'am, I'm going to have to insist that you pass away, this instant. You're overdue.
~ Christopher Moore
I cannot stand authority.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Non può esservi alcuna sottomissione – perché il fatto stesso che parliamo di questi argomenti indica che vi è curiosità, e la curiosità è insubordinazione nella forma più pura.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Câu chuy?n v? ngh? thu?t chính là câu chuy?n v? s? b?t tuân th?.
~ Guillaume Musso
Pueden ordenar a la Luna que se vuelva azul, pero no por eso cambiará de color. Escucha,Ender, los comandantes tienen la autoridad que tú les permitas tener. Cuanto más obedeces, más poder tienen sobre ti.
~ Orson Scott Card
The Master said, 'Respectfulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
~ Confucius
I'll just walk into Steve's office, pull down my pants and urinate on his desk. What could he say to that. It's guaranteed to work.
~ Walter Isaacson
You're a fucking aberration, sweetheart.
~ Chelsea Cain
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
~ Azar Nafisi
This building doesn't just break the rules, Langdon thought. It ignores them completely.
~ Dan Brown
If you're going to break the rules, you might as well break them correctly.
~ Dan Gutman
You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you're a Hebrew... Next time you're at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that. ~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags.
~ Hilary Mantel
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
~ Veronica Roth