Rebellious Quotes

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

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

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

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

It's kind of rebellious to be yourself.

If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

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

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

I don't take crap from anyone, so that makes people think I'm rebellious. I'm not. I'm just not a pushover.

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

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

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

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

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

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

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

I was very rebellious.

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

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.

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

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

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

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

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

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

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

I do think I have a rebellious, metal-loving rock chick inside of me.

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit.
A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince,
or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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

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

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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

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

Revolutions are not made, they come.