Jim Morrison Quotes

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?

Nobody knows this, but my hero is Che Guevara. Why? Because he was magic. He was a hero. Che resisted. He fought against the system.

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.

To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

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Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.

For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited me. Seeing this story of the Underground Railroad ... and that is such a proud part of our history that not a lot of us know about, where these brave men and women, they were heroes, really helped tear down the system of slavery just by running.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.