Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

I really rebel against authority.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

We are not rebels. Rebels defy authority and break laws at will.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

'Fight Club' is great in its spirit of anti-establishment.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

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

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.

The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

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.