Philip K. Dick Quotes

Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

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

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

I fight authority and authority always wins.

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

I really rebel against authority.

I'm such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man.

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.