“Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives”
Floyd Dell
“A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
“It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“What is a rebel? A man who says no”
