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Topic·Resisting authority✕clear

Essay · Political literature

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Henry David Thoreau

The Relation of the Individual to the State · 1848

★ 1.3

Courtroom speech · Speech

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors... Then surely it is braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

1917

★ 1.7

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe that you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken.

The Matrix · 1999

★ 1.9

Dare them to censor you.

2017

★ 1.9

If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in and drop out.

1966

★ 3.5

Scripture · Religious literature

Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?

Exodus 2:14

1405 BC

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 3.7

Song · Hip hop

Fight the power.

Fight the Power · 1989

★ 4.5

I fought the law, and the law won.

I Fought the Law · 1961

★ 5.3

Song · Album · Rock music

We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave them kids alone. Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!

Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 · 1979

★ 5.3

Novel · Political literature

It is not rebellion itself that is noble, but what it demands of you.

The Rebel · 1947

★ 5.4