Nelson Mandela Quotes

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

If I know something's expected of me, I won't wear it or do it. It just seems boring.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I really rebel against authority.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social establishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob. To rebel against the “scientific” establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail.

There are .. two choices: obedience to institutional authority or radical dissent from it.

I'm always rebelling. I don't think I'll ever stop.

I don't like rules.

I'm done with rules that are there just to be rules.

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

I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.

I don't take well to rules.

There's always stuff to rebel against.