It’s true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves – motifs of rebellion.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved.

I don’t think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized – it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

When you’re thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it’s peaceful, of course.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.