Quiet Rebellion Quotes

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

the mute protest in your own bones

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

I'd listen to the radio, especially when my parents were out on house calls to pray for people - you know, shut-ins. Sometimes, if we were incredibly sneaky, we could do it at night when everyone was asleep.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.