Quotes about Rebellion

I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do

Yet there is nothing emotional or rebellious in her countenance; it is one of profound, inexorable calm; but one feels the tense vitality, the primitive fire, the untamed strength in the defiant immobility of her slender body, the proud line of her head held high, the sweep of her tousled hair. " Excerpt From: Ayn Rand. "Night of January 16th.

In a world that proclaims the non-existence of the mind, the moral righteousness of rule by brute force, the penalizing of the competent in favor of the incompetent, the sacrifice of the best to the worst - in such a world, the best have to turn against society and have to become its deadliest enemies.

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.

God hates us, I said. Don't blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants. They have to swarm over a village and eat other people alive? When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.

That's one of the things about love. It doesn't recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.