Best 81 quotes in «rebellious quotes» category

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I'm not rebellious, but I am very strong-willed. I know what I believe in, and I know what I think is right.

I want to be a rebellious McDonald's owner. Cheeseburgers... NOPE... we got spaghetti!

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Revolutions never go backward.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Slamdance actually is indie and rebellious. Sundance obviously felt threatened.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

There is no one more talkative than Cubans, Cubans express their feelings, there's nobody more rebellious and revolutionary than a Cuban and I say that without chauvinism.

The tighter a deadline is, the more I'm inclined to be perverse and rebellious - I'll start thinking about another, different project, until it becomes the most fantastic thing which I must start immediately.