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

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

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.

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.

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

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

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

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

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

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

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.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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.

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

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.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

I think in the ’70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the ’60s as ‚ideal‘ was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

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

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.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

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

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