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Quotes about Rebellion

Silence! said the ruffian. To the devil with your clamour!
— Emily Bronte
People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.
— Moby
Judas sought regeneration through revolution, instead of revolution through regeneration.
— Peter Marshall
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
— Abbie Hoffman
On the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.
— Abraham Lincoln
I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.
— Indya Moore
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
— Lauren Bacall
The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.
— El-P
I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I wanted to get a guitar so I could play punk songs because this kid taught me power chords at summer camp.
— Ezra Furman
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson