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

“We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.”

“Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.”

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

“With rebellion, awareness is born.”

“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”

“The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.”