Groucho Marx Quotes

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

This will not stand!

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

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

To be against something or someone, it's a dangerous thing.

I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

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.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.