Anti Establishment Quotes

“When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel tle very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols, to provide a few rebellious schoolboys with the longed-for ticket to Hamburg, or to stand one or two representatives of the established order on their heads. For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Fürst! Was Sie sind, sind Sie durch Zufall und Geburt, was ich bin, bin ich durch mich. Fürsten hat es und wird es noch Tausende geben, Beethoven gibt es nur einen.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“I have always been a anti-establishment artist. I once believed, and still do to some extent, that one could get a better education in a forest rather than a desk.”
― Casey Carter

“No pueden penetrar en nuestra alma. Si podemos sentir que merece la pena seguir siendo humanos, aunque esto no tenga ningún resultado positivo, los habremos derrotado.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“My eyes are open now and can never be closed.”
― Jasmine Angell, Luminous

“I don't do charity, I pay taxes instead.”
― Girish Kohli

“If nothing is done to counter present trends, the major fault line in American politics will no longer be between Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives. It will be between the "establishment"--political insiders, power brokers, the heads of American business, Wall Street, and the mainstream media--and an increasingly mad-as-hell populace determined to "take back America" from them.”
― Robert B. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

“I've found that most people don't have a mental filing drawer labeled Times I Was Wrong. Its mislabeled Times I Was Lonely or Times So-And-So Was Angry.”
― Kathryn Schulz , [Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error] [By: Schulz, Kathryn] [January, 2011]

“The Devil didn't pull a trick. He didn't hide. He just put on a Brooks Brothers suit and convinced a generation of poets and fuck-ups that dental benefits were a fair trade for their balls.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“The only way out is to burn the memo, piss in the water cooler, and run screaming toward the horizon before the bastards turn you into a statistic!”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“To hell with the pension. To hell with the dental plan. The only currency that matters is freedom, and the exchange rate is fucking terrible.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I don’t care if they have a badge, a billion dollars, or a mandate from the Queen herself. Power attracts the worst kind of psychopaths. If someone tells you they have power over you 'for your own good,' you tell them to fuck off, and you watch your back.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Honor is a concept invented by the winning side to make the losing side feel better about getting their teeth kicked in. If some suit tries to take what’s yours, you don’t challenge him to a gentleman’s duel. You find his weakness, you find out what he loves, and you hit him there so hard he forgets his own bloody name. You go scorched earth. You make sure he never, ever tries to come back at you again.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I don't know how to want something without turning it into a violence against myself.

I don’t know how to like things. I only know how to obsess until I ruin them or ruin me.

I see something beautiful—a woman, a dream, a moment of silence—and I don't just reach for it. I set myself on fire to see if the light will attract it.

I turn every ambition into an ulcer and every love affair into a car crash, just because I don't believe I’m allowed to have the thing unless I destroy myself to get it.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Humans and their obsession with chasing what's not meant for them... it’s the classic tragedy isn't it?

We think you know something God doesn't.

We think if we suffer enough, the universe will finally owe us a prize. We’re just romantics in a world that prefers accountants.

We like to wake up and say, 'I almost had it.' No, you didn't. You were never even close.

So cheers to the god damn fools who dream.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Here’s a spoiler alert: The 65-year-old version of you? Not that much fun.”

You are saving your joy for 65? Work now, live later. Bullsh*t.That’s a bad bet.You’re banking on a body that might not work and a world that might not exist.

You’re pushing all your chips to the end of the table, saving the best wine for a party nobody’s gonna show up to.

The world might blow up tomorrow So Eat that fruit, drink that rum, and kiss that girl tonight?

Coz Tonight you still look good.

LIVE, DAMN YOU!”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Potential is just a nice word for 'hasn't done sh*t yet.'

Stop romanticizing to your own potential.

The world doesn't pay you for what you could do. It pays you for what you f*cking did.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“To be safe... it is a kind of death. You wish to be protected from the sting of the world?

You want the world to be a soft, pink nursery! It is a delusion of the highest order!

The heart must break to open.

You must face the horror!

You must stare into the abyss until it blinks!

Do not hide in the bunker! Charge into the f*cking fire!”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”