Best 81 quotes in «rebellious quotes» category

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.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Revolutions never go backward.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

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

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

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

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.

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

There's also just socially, personally. There is something naughty about pot. There is something that is rebellious and outlawish and a kind of, you know, a finger in the eye of the government saying, hey, you can't tell me what to do. That would be gone if legalize it.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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