We are the people our parents warned us about.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

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.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

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

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

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

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

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

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren’t for Toronto.

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

Beware the hobby that eats.

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.

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

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

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.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

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.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I’m not going to freak out about it. I’m not that bad. I’m certainly not a boy, and it’s been a while since I’ve been a chef.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I always think of myself as a working girl.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

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.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

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.

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

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

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

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

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

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.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

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

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.