Whatever it is, I'm against it.
To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.
People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.
I always wanted to rebel.
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
I've been the target of haters for so long, for so many years. Ever since I was a kid and I first started the show.
If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.
my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
Haters are going to hate.
So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.
I don't care who gets in my way... I'm just gonna come right though and riot.
In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.
I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.
I'd stood my ground against him. I wasn't going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.
If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.
Persecution matures young rebels.
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.
