#rebellion

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#piercy #rebellion #nature

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#cannot #general #nation #rebellion #revolt

Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!" "Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do." "Oh, really?" "Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#rebellion #time

Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#rebellion #sarcasm #humor

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#rebellion #humor

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#discontent #greater #men #nation #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. ↗

— Albert Camus

#absolutely free #act #become #deal #existence

This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign. ↗

— James Chalmers

#colonies #his #now #others #rebellion

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

— George Orwell

#custard pie #dirty #every #funny #joke