Rebellion quotes

“Who is the living food for the machines in Metropolis? Who lubricates the machine joints with their own blood? Who feeds the machines with their own flesh? Let the machines starve, you fools! Let them die!”
Brigitte Helm - The Machine Man

“In the beginning, there were seven Primes, our original leaders. They set out with one rule: never destroy a planet with life. Until one of them tried to defy this rule. And his name was, forevermore, the Fallen. He despised the human race, and he wanted to kill you all.”
Mark Ryan - Jetfire

“Was it possible that at every gathering, concert, peace rally, love-in, be-in, freak-in, here up north, back east, where ever, some dark crews had been busy all along reclaiming the music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to everyday? All they could sweep up for the ancient forces of greed and fear? Gee he thought... I don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joanna Newsom - Sortilège

Those who have gone before us say "no more"! No more! That means protest! That means march! That means disturb the peace! That means jail! That means risk! That is hard!
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”
Meryl Streep - Emmeline Pankhurst

“- Lex Luthor: You both stood your ground and are doing what you want. I caved. You two have inspired me.
- Clark Kent: Oh yeah. Joining the football team and pouring some coffee. We're a couple of real rebels.
- Lana Lang: Long live the revolution.”

Michael Rosenbaum - Lex Luthor
Tom Welling - Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk - Lana Lang

- Beca: Tell me, what does "Judd Nelson" eat for breakfast?
- Jesse: Oh, well, like all misunderstood rebels, he feeds on hypocrisy.
- Beca: Sure.
- Jesse: And black coffee, to help with his morning dumps.
Anna Kendrick - Beca
Skylar Astin - Jesse

“Let me tell you something, mister. You fire me and I'll make more noise than two skeletons making love in a tin coffin, brother.”
Richard Gesswein - Coldyron

“- Victor Von Doom: Do you really think fate turned us into gods so we could refuse these gifts?
- Sue Storm: Victor, you always thought you were a god. Now back off.”
Julian McMahon - Victor Von Doom
Jessica Alba - Sue Storm

“- Irene Terwilliger: Really, Luke! That's no way to treat Mr. Liszt. Stop that! Stop it, stop it! Who taught you to play like that? I demand to know. Where on earth did you learn to play such a thing?
- Emmett Smith: I taught him that... when you weren't looking!”

Susan Willis - Irene Terwilliger
Gerry Black - Emmett Smith

“- President Snow: Oh, make no mistake, she intends to take my place now. But... I've been watching you. And you watching me. I'm afraid we've both been played for fools.
- Katniss Everdeen: I don't believe you.
- President Snow: Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we'd agreed never to lie to each other.”

Donald Sutherland - President Snow
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen

“- Gov. George Wallace: Mr. President, malcontents are disrupting Alabama and it's your responsibility to stop them.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: They're protesting about the right to vote and the way they're treated in your state, so that's your problem and it's your responsibility and it's on your watch.”
Tim Roth - Gov. George Wallace
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“It takes more than going down to your local video store and renting Easy Rider to become a rebel.”
Dennis Hopper - Huey Walker

“- Pag: It is too late. He has defeated you in battle. Ka-Laa belongs to him now. It is the law of our village.
- Yor: I'm not from your village, Pag! I don't recognize your laws!”
Luciano Pigozzi - Pag
Reb Brown - Yor

“If we must go to prison to obtain the vote, let it be the windows of government, not the bodies of women, that shall be broken.”
Meryl Streep - Emmeline Pankhurst

“For fifty years, we have laboured peacefully to secure the vote for women. We've been ridiculed, battered and ignored. Now we have realised that deeds and sacrifice be the order of the day. We are fighting for a time in which every little girl born into the world will have an equal chance with her brothers.”
Meryl Streep - Emmeline Pankhurst

“- Janey Briggs: I read Sylvia Plath, I listen to 'Bikini Kill' and I eat Tofu. I am a unique rebel.
- Mitch Briggs: It sounds more like you're a lesbo.”
Chyler Leigh - Janey Briggs
Cody McMains - Mitch Briggs

“We wanna go somewhere else. We're not threatened by people anymore. All our insecurities have evaporated. We're in the clouds now. We're wide open. We're spacemen orbiting the earth.”
John Simm - Jip

“- Junior Healy: I'm getting out.
- Ben Healy: You can't just get out of a moving vehicle!
- Junior Healy: Well, anything's better than listening to this lecture!”

Justin Chapman - Junior Healy
William Katt - Ben Healy

“My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.”
Harold Ramis

“If he decides to fight an eviction, you're already knee-deep in shit.”

Guy Boyd - Warning Cop

“Kids go completely ape if you do three things in a picture: defy authority, destroy property, and take people's clothes off.”
Saul Rubinek - Bo Hodges

“- Admiral Hood: It takes more than an infatuated youth to make a mutiny. It takes a discontented crew.
- Lieutenant William Bligh: The crew were anything but discontent, sir. Fletcher Christian corrupted them.
- Captain Greetham: Yes, but what made them so easy to corrupt?
- Lieutenant William Bligh: I don't know.”
Laurence Olivier - Admiral Hood
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh
Edward Fox - Captain Greetham

“- Matthew Poncelet: I like rebels. Some blacks is ok. Martin Luther King, he led his people all the way to DC and kicked the white man's butt.
- Sister Helen Prejean: You respect Martin Luther King?
- Matthew Poncelet: He put up a fight. He wasn't lazy.”
Sean Penn - Matthew Poncelet
Susan Sarandon - Sister Helen Prejean

“Power to the people who punish bad cinema!”
Stephen Dorff - Cecil