George R. R. Martin Quotes

There's always stuff to rebel against.

I just don't like authority. I do like authority when I respect it.

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

We never want to toe the line.

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

...that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place.

I really don't have to answer to nobody.

„You,” the female on the bed said, her timbre shaded with irrittion. „New guy. Angel Boy. Colonel Curls, or whatever you want to be called. I'm done asking, so now I'm commanding. Free me.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

My rebellion was telling my dad, "No, you're wrong, you don't know what's best for me. I'm not gonna waste my time in college." You know the story. He thought he was an abject failure 'cause he didn't convince me to go to college. I didn't rebel against my dad's economic status. I didn't rebel against what I thought were old-fashioned, archaic moral values. I didn't rebel by going out and wrecking the car and getting drunk and being irresponsible. I rebelled against their assumption they knew better than I did, what I wanted, and what I needed.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

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

Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.

The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could in time to the swishing brush; then he'd splash in some Clorox and he'd be through. ... And when the Big Nurse...came in to check McMurphy's cleaning assignment personally, she brought a little compact mirror and she held it under the rim of the bowls. She walked along shaking her head and saying, "Why, this is an outrage... an outrage..." at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, "No; that's a toilet bowl...a TOILET bowl.

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.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point to the guy who gave it to me and I put it in my mouth and chewed it up. And the guy just kept watching me, like, "Yeah?" He didn't think I was going to finish the job. So then I swallowed it. The good news is that paper is not a big deal if you eat it.You'd be full, but you could eat the phone book. So that was the weirdest thing: a parking ticket.