Georges Bataille Quotes

Gotta know the rules to break the rules.

We made The Who look like church boys on Sunday. We done things only fools'd do.

I was good at embarrassing authority. It was fun. There's a fearlessness that goes along with being a kid.

If you dance alone on the streets, people might call you crazy, but when so many people dance together, it's a party.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

I'm such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.

I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.

It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Choose bravery but not bravado.

Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.