Martin Luther Quotes

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

The devil I know is the establishment, and I'm gonna beat that devil.

Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

I really rebel against authority.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

You tell me what to do and I'll do the opposite.

If someone says I can't do something, I always think I'm going to totally do this to annoy you.

I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.