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Rebellion Quotes
"Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different."
14
"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
14
"Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth."
8
"Don't let the man bring you down."
8
"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."
7
"Rebellion is the very essence of meditation. Meditation means destroying the mind totally."
7
"Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core, he is one who follows his Tao."
7
"Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion-often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation-that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter."
7
"High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell - in public."
7
"The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society."
7
"Repression will provoke rebellion."
6
"If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!"
6
"There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with."
6
"True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle, it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done."
5
"Fuck your manners.""You don't have to settle for just my manners."
5
"To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet."
5
"Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity."
5
"A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced."
4
"One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon."
4
"There was no burger so soggy that he would not eat it. No tequila so mean that he would not drink it. No car so covered with birdshit and rust that he would not drive it around town (and if it were a convertible, he'd have the top down, even in rain, even in snow). There was no flag he would not desecrate, no true believer he would not mock, no song he wouldn't sign off-key, no dental appointment he wouldn't break, no child he wouldn't do tricks for, no old person he wouldn't help in from the cold, no moon he wouldn't lie under..."
4
"The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen."
3
"There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline."
3
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government."
3
"A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil."
3
"Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind."
3
"In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption."
2
"This box is useless," said Alliance 6-7349.Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642, "then it would bring ruin to the Department of Candles."
2
"Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them."
2
"I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous."
2
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