Peter O'Toole Quotes

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

I was rebellious.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

... an act of insurrection.

This House has heard discord and rebellion encouraged and avowed from more than one quarter.

Insurrection is an art.

Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

Rebellion is the necessary result of injustice. It may not always achieve its purpose, or be intended to do so, but a conviction of injustice endured must precede articulate rebellion. Nor is it always certain that injustice will be followed by rebellion – it would be very much better for the world if this was the case. But where the victims of aggression or custom are ignorant and disunited, the opportunities for reasoned and effective revolt are practically reduced to nothing…

It is needless to trouble your Lordship with daily Publications of determined resolutions not to obey the Acts of Parliament … The Country People are exercising in Arms… and getting Magazines of Arms and Ammunition … People are resorting to this town [Boston] for Protection…. Sedition flows copiously from the Pulpits. The Commissioners of Customs have thought it no longer safe or prudent to remain at Salem.

Large crowds have gathered in the streets. The pervading spirit among the masses is resistance to Lincoln’s administration, and everywhere that determination is manifest.

I am a rebel.

‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the “disgrace of the young.” She would not miss this place.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.