Michael Sorrentino Quotes

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

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

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

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

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.