Quotes about Rebellion

There is little discipline in government, in school, in the home, or in most individuals. The rebellion against authority is also alive in the apostate church that has thrown discipline overboard and no longer mentions the necessity of submitting to spiritual and civil leadership. The alternative to discipline is mayhem where the nation has become an asylum, and the inmates are in charge.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:

With ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud.

The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of the stony heart, that is, the stubborn, proud, rebellious, unbelieving heart, is, in general, the work of mortification that we treat of.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

No one ever got radicalized by being grateful.

I pray for the courage To walk naked At any age To wear red and purple, To be unladylike, Inappropriate, Scandalous and incorrect To the very end.

In short, these rebels punished their families, but only in the traditionally feminine way: they punished themselves.