Ah” said Dumbledore gently, “Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!””Snag?” said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. “I see no snag, Dumbledore!””Well,” said Dumbledore apologetically, “I’m afraid I do.””Oh, really?””Well it’s...

At first they pretended to laugh to scorn the idea of animals managing a farm for themselves. The whole thing would be over in a fortnight, they said. They put it about that the animals...

Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.

Time is a hard-hearted rebel, we cannot fight him or can we beg him to slow down, wait for us or stop, all we have to do is to obey his strict rules, follow him...

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

The only thing we can do is to say ‘Fuck it’ over and over again, really loud, until someone stops us.

Retaliation by rebellion is hurtful to the intended target, but sadly it creates a heated desert that demands for the now rebel to reach out his arms of pride for help, a few succumb the...

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly...

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Fan would have expected that one or two of the Girls would have long rebelled at spending a life in a room, would have begged, say, the dentist, to help them steal away, but the...

I’m a guardian angel. I’m condemned to share the responsibility for my ward’s life, and therefore the ultimate course of the progression of the human species. So you see, while I’m here I cannot change...

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

Pensar es el mayor acto de rebelión.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

‎I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.

In the cage is the lion. She paces with her memories. Her body is a record of her past. As she moves back and forth, one may see it all: the lean frame, the muscular...

Not that I lack confidence in the outcome,” Ferrin said, “but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in...

DUMBLEDORE’S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING.

All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived. Physical rebellion,...

There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries me forward when nothing else will – but more often than not I...

There is a payoff for examining the divine author’s literary style. It will tell you something about Him. Whereas, Jonah’s actions are extensively described and laboriously detailed, God’s reactions (although miraculous) are only described in...

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they’re a...

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I’ve found what freedom really means.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

Your directions, your judgment, your disposition to rebel must be subjected and reduced to ashes. How? In the fire of obedience, for it is there that you will find out if you are truly a...

That was when they noticed that every musician on the stage was wearing mourning black. That was when they shut up. And when the conductor raised his arms, it was not a symphony that filled...

It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals – although a case could be made for the dolphins – because...

We need to bring out the rabble-rousing nature of people. We are gonna need un-repression. We need hundreds of people farting up a storm. We need a big-time, old-fashioned, furious, fart storm.

The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There...

I’m turning off; rebelling against rebellion.

Now I know. If God himself stood before me and said, “Give me that child, that I might slaughter him,” I would tell him, “BITE ME!

This isn’t going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they’re small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those...

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

What if a pair of us head off on our own?” Nollin proposed, panting. “A small detachment might avoid detection.””It’s a gamble,” Ferrin said. “If the duo gets noticed, they’ll be defenseless. Who’d you have...

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Late Friday morning I was driving toward Boulder. I was seated in “Doctor Lovebeads Cosmic Wonderbus and Mobile Mercantile.” That entire phrase was painted in psychedelic colors on both sides of the van. But I...

Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to...

This is a simple study. Yet, you can use this book to see deeper into the personality of God. I find it heartwarming that God was like a concerned parent who continuously moved the dialogue...

I can’t help remembering that good old wild Thoreau wound up a tame surveyor of Concord house lots. […] How would I know what it means? I don’t know what anything means. What it suggests...

Si hay algo que no tolero es a esa gente que, cansada de golpear a las puertas del sistema sin lograr entrar en él, ya sea por incapacidad, dejadez o justicia pura, se se autoproclaman...