Best 81 quotes in «rebellious quotes» category

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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

All the names of the ultimate truth are given by human beings. Whether you call it Allah or God or Jehovah or Rama or Krishna, these names are given by human beings and hence they cannot be eternal. You are playing one sided game. The truth has nothing to do with these names.

A rebel! How glorious the name sounds when applied to a woman. Oh, rebellious woman, to you the world looks in hope. Upon you has fallen the glorious task of bringing liberty to the earth and all the inhabitants thereof.

As a youth I got my jollies by confronting my professors with facts that ran completely contrary to what they were trying to ram into our thick skulls. His expressions of bafflement and anger had never failed to amuse me.

Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.

Except that today, oblivious to everyone, there is a hair standing tall inside his shorts: a single hair: long, black and shining. Sprouting out of nowhere, it stands rebelliously erect on his tiny barren orb, not thwarted by the force of the cloth of his underwear, announcing its eventual arrival with élan.

Friend, I love your rebellious heart.

I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.

it's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.

Only be rebellious for good reasons.

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

I've been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would have been easy to gut him then and there. Satisfying. But the need was too urgent. I felt pushed.

I wasn't rebellious. Maybe I was just more human than the average person.

I will not live by rules like those.

Mauma didn`t want that cloth, she just wanted to make some trouble. She couldn`t get free and she couldn`t pop missus on the back of her head, but she could take her silk. You do your rebellions any way you can.

The night I killed Packo I had a terrible dream. A hideous female corpse was floating towards me through a closed window. Calling itself ‘Bonna’, the corpse kept insisting that it was the real rebel, the real iconoclast. Its face had the same grim, sickly look I had observed on USA establishment figures, and I believe that it was the baby boomer generation incarnate…utterly enslaved to globalism, yet still desperately wanting to be seen as ‘edgy’ and ‘rebellious’.

Rooster was a bad slave. He had no use for anyone, not even the gods. Not that he was angry at the gods, like some I'd met. He just dismissed them entirely. There were no gods, and that was that.

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

She wears the braid every day and always, by lunchtime, the curls and ringlets of her thick mane have managed to escape in rebellious little tendrils. But she refuses to surrender to that hair of hers, and every morning, it goes back into the braid.

Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that's when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna has turned me into a mockingjay.

The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards.

We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always....

When I get lemon juice in a cut..it hurts..but then I remember all who would die for that lemon I am quiet and take the pain for what it is... because that is what it is to live.

Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core; he is one who follows his Tao.

Would they ever let go, these grey, turtle-faced creatures? Would their stranglehold on the Western world ever cease?

Yes, an actual full-sized camel. If you find that confusing, just think how the criosphinx must have felt. Where did the camel come from, you ask? I may have mentioned Walt’s collection of amulets. Two of them summoned disgusting camels. I’d met them before, so I was less than excited when a ton of dromedary flesh flew across my line of sight, plowed into the sphinx, and collapsed on top of it. The sphinx growled in outrage as it tried to free itself. The camel grunted and farted. “Hindenburg,” I said. Only one camel could possibly fart that badly. “Walt, why in the world—?” “Sorry!” he yelled. “Wrong amulet!” The technique worked, at any rate. The camel wasn’t much of a fighter, but it was quite heavy and clumsy. The criosphinx snarled and clawed at the floor, trying unsuccessfully to push the camel off; but Hindenburg just splayed his legs, made alarmed honking sounds, and let loose gas. I moved to Walt’s side and tried to get my bearings.

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

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

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

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.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

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

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

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

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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