youth resistance Quotes

When I went through puberty I had a huge rebellion against movies. I was so upset with how they brainwashed me that I didn't watch movies for years.

By God, the youths of God are preparing for you things that would fill your hearts with terror and target your economic lifeline until you stop your oppression and aggression.

Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create bonds of solidarity that reinforce a commitment to the common good.

Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.

For some strange reason a lot of people in my age demographic don't want to listen to veterans of this sport.

Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

When you're 15 whatever your parents tell you you should do, you're not going to do it.

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

My earliest memories of defying my parents were through music. I remember rap being banned in my house, and then getting a Cam'ron album.

Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.