Quotes about Rebellion
Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.
— Virginia Woolf
Oliver Twist has asked for more!
— Charles Dickens
I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!
— Charles Dickens
He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.
— Charles Dickens
When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.
— Gia Coppola
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
— Emily Bronte
We are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud.
— Gloria Steinem
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.
— Gloria Steinem
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
— Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every woman is a rebel.
— Oscar Wilde
I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.
— Oscar Wilde