Quotes about Rebellion

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart.

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.

I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.

Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.

Wayward, stubborn, contentious as he was, God loved him.

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same.

Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!

The censure of your peers? But what if your peers balked at no obscenity? You could do anything.

Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts. The guilt of rebellion invoked hellfire and self-righteous judgments.